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While cuts, falls and strains make up a large portion of workers compensation claims among restaurants, injuries from a worker’s extremities being crushed, and injuries related to mental stress and fainting are on the rise post-2020, according to an analysis published Wednesday by AmTrust Financial Services Inc. In studying injuries post-pandemic, comparing 2021 with 2019 as a baseline, AmTrust found…

Sixty percent of so-called cumulative trauma workers compensation claims involve injuries that progress over time and are indemnity-only, thus involving no medical component, according to a report released Thursday by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. Overall, 77% of indemnity cumulative trauma claims involving more than $1,000 in expenses attributed to settling and defending claims, while only 53%…

A former employee of Brandsafway claims he was wrongfully terminated for seeking worker's compensation benefits after he was injured on the job. Plaintiff Fred Skelton filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against defendant Brandsafway, LLC formerly known as Safway Services, LLC, citing retaliatory discharge in violation of the Illinois Worker's Compensation Act. According to the lawsuit, Skelton…

Acute labor shortages across the construction industry are hitting everything from quality control to worker safety, keeping busy risk engineers and others involved with construction risk management. The labor crunch can lead to work being done by less qualified or inadequately trained workers, causing mistakes that require expensive rework, often at the expense of the contractor. In other cases, there…

Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators again cited a Schaumburg, Illinois-based excavating contractor for failure to follow federally mandated safety measures to protect workers from potentially deadly trench cave-ins. Trench collapses are among the construction industry's most lethal hazards and a recent focus of OSHA. OSHA reported that an inspector in June observed two employees of A. Lamp Concrete Contractors…