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Six states have sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s plan to roll back its electronic record-keeping rule. Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey and New York challenged the “illegal and unjustified attempt to roll back (the regulation’s) requirements for the public reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses — information that allows states to better…

A woman suing a hospital for negligence after falling on property it owned successfully won over an appellate panel that found the hospital failed to designate sufficient evidence to affirmatively negate her claims. While attempting to catch up with a co-worker in the parking lot of a building they frequently visited for work, Michelle Converse tripped over a landscaping rock…

An appeals court dismissed a railroad conductor’s claims that he was fired for reporting a workplace injury. In Holloway v. Soo Line Railroad Co., d/b/a Canadian Pacific, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday unanimously affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court in Chicago that a railroad company provided sufficient evidence…

An appellate court in Illinois on Monday denied additional workers compensation-related disability benefits to an injured beverage distributor whom it claims did not seek job rehabilitation services in light of his diminished abilities stemming from a back injury that aggravated a degenerative condition. John Bohentin had been working in the beverage distribution business for over 30 years and for North…

Worker misclassification in the construction business, done to avoid workers' compensation and payroll taxes, is a growing problem nationwide, and Indiana is no exception, according to a local news report. Legitimate commercial contractors told an Indiana TV station this week that fraudulent misclassification appears to be spreading in the industry. Some contractors can shave 30% off their bids by classifying…