Workers' Compensation

How Does Workers' Compensation Work?

Workers’ compensation is a type of insurance that pays out when employees suffer work-related accidents and illnesses.

Fired for Being Unable to Work due to Work-Related Injury

Life can change in an instant if you experience a work-related injury. An injury can leave you permanently or temporarily disabled, unable to earn an income due to chronic pain or medically-prescribed limitations. Injured employees and their employers sometimes wonder whether the employees have a continued right to maintain their jobs after they suffer an injury.

Workers' Compensation Benefits for Slip-and-Fall Injuries

Slip-and-fall accidents are among the most common types of workplace accidents in the United States. If you're unfamiliar with the workers’ compensation process, here's what you need to know about pursuing a workers' comp claim for a slip-and-fall injury.

My Boss Fired Me After I Filed a Workers' Comp Claim. Is That Legal?

Your employer can’t fire you in retaliation for filing a workers’ comp claim—but that doesn’t necessarily mean your job is safe.

Workers' Compensation Benefits for Coronavirus

The unprecedented spread of COVID-19 has businesses of all sizes struggling to protect healthy employees who remain on the job, and wondering how to help those who have fallen ill as a result of work-related exposure to the disease.