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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Corporations will hire private investigators after you are injured on the job. Insurance Companies and Employers do this routinely in order to gather information that they hope will help them reduce or eliminate their exposure to pay for benefits under the state workers compensation laws. They claim they do this to verify that your claim…
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