Earlier this year, we posted about an NPR series condemning our nation’s workers’ comp system. A day after that ProPublica/NPR story hit the airwaves, the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a report that agrees with much of the criticisms. The OSHA report says that changes in workers’ compensation have made it…
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Earlier this month, National Public Radio (NPR) published a series on injured nurses. Specifically, NPR did an investigation into nurses who are injured in the course of their duties. In short, this series uncovers something Virginia Workers’ Compensation attorney Doug Landau has known for a long time: Lifting, moving, supporting, and carrying heavy patients and…
Continue readingNurses injured on the job have many hurdles when seeking workers compensation benefits for accidents at the hospitals and clinics. When a nurse or home care aid sustains a herniated disc lifting and re-positioning a patient, or falling at the bedridden client’s residence, the location of the accident is not as critical as the mechanism…
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