With the headline “major retailers filing for bankruptcy,” and the potential closure of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, and other well known American stores, injured and disabled employees receiving workers compensation benefits may wonder what will happen to their cases. Saks 5th Avenue is over 100 years old, with its very famous flagship…
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It seems we were not the only ones to notice and comment on the recent NPR/ProPublica series on our nation’s workers’ comp system. Entitled “The Demolition of Workers’ Comp,” the NPR/ProPublica piece is an investigation into workers’ comp in the United States. It presents a scathing depiction of an inconsistent and difficult-to-navigate system once designed…
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National Public Radio (NPR) has published a thorough and revealing article on our workers’ compensation (WC) system. (Click here to listen to the audio.) The article starts with a concise summary of the history of workers’ comp in the United States. WC began in the early 1900’s, as industrialization put workers at an increased risk…
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