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Catering to both lawyers and their clients, Workers’ Comp Matters focuses on people and the law. Host and workers’ compensation attorney Alan S. Pierce interviews industry leaders, lawyers,...
As the fully vaccinated emerge and more and more offices welcome employees back in-person, employers may be looking for creative ways to rec...

While researching the Manhattan Project, filmmaker Ginny Mohler stumbled on a little-told story of the young watch-dial painters in New Jers...

Just like workers' compensation, states have varying approaches to vocational rehabilitation. Voc rehab expert Rhonda Jellenik and host Juds...

Teamster turned national workers' comp expert Michael Duff explains the presumption landscape that's rapidly developed over the last year du...

Darrell West, an expert on artificial intelligence in the workplace, talks about the critical intersection America is facing and the public...

Sensational coverage and panic drove much of the early discussion and predictions about workers comp during the beginning of the pandemic. B...

Executive coach Jayme Purinton explains how modeling wellbeing from the top down can improve performance teamwide. Especially during times o...

Delta Air Line's "Passport Plum" Lands' End uniforms designed by Zac Posen debuted with much fanfare only to be mired in litigation once fli...

Active in lobbying for worker-friendly laws, maritime lawyer Amie Peters is focused now on workers exposed to the most risk during the globa...

As foreign governments do more business in the United States, questions about the intersection of sovereign immunity and U.S. law will undou...

As a Schedule I controlled substance, marijuana is not permitted for medical usage at the federal level. However, variance in state laws and...

Unique workers' compensation laws in Texas allow employers to choose whether they will subscribe to traditional workers' comp programs. As s...

Can workers who contract COVID-19 seek workers' compensation benefits? There are many factors at play, and workers comp attorneys are facing...

Can lawyers do better work if they approach it with a marketer's mindset? In this edition of Workers' Comp Matters, Judson Pierce fills in a...

Workers who have suffered an injury on the job are stressed and dealing with uncertainty about how to navigate their workers' compensation s...

As we continue to shift further into gig economy employment, defining employee-employer relationships is increasingly challenging in the are...

In instances of certain disabilities, injured workers may need assets from a workers' comp settlement to be managed by a trust with a third-...

In this edition of Workers' Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce welcomes Peter Rousmaniere to discuss his prolific career as a workers' comp con...

Efforts to track opioid dispensation across the nation show many state workers' compensation systems produce significantly varied data. What...

The landscape of health insurance has changed significantly in recent years, and some of these changes have created new challenges in worker...

Workers' compensation systems have existed in our country for over a hundred years, and the laws affecting these systems have changed drasti...

Every year, the Workers Compensation Research Institute releases its CompScope Benchmarks report, measuring the performance of workers' comp...

How do drug formularies affect injured workers? In this edition of Workers' Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce talks to Tom Holder about the ro...

Workers' compensation lawyers may face extraordinarily complicated issues when dealing with third party settlements. Staying on top of curre...

What are employees entitled to under the law? In this episode of Workers' Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce talks to Karla Zarbo, an assistant...

To have a deep understanding of workers' compensation, lawyers need to know how it has evolved in our country. In this episode of Workers' C...

By 2019 millennials will outnumber Baby Boomers in the United States. The amount of American workers working for themselves is expected to t...

Nurse case managers are often viewed with some suspicion by claimants and their lawyers, but a wider perspective is needed to understand the...

The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment is used in workers' compensation to rate impairment, but the most recent edition is...

Employees who are confronted by workers' compensation claims for the first time can be overwhelmed by the legal process, but attorneys are t...

Massachusetts' Department of Industrial Accident (DIA) is launching a two year pilot program called the Opioid Alternative Treatment Pathway...

Are there any situations in which an injured student athlete could be awarded workers' compensation? In this episode of Workers Comp Matters...

In this episode of Workers Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce talks to Rick Victor about the major changes the workers compensation system has...

The definition of employee might not be as clear cut as you would think. In this episode of Workers Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce talks to...

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." - George Beilin When chronic pain hits it feels like the most important thing in your life, but...

For those who work at Planned Parenthood, there is increased risk of assault and harassment within the workplace, but if employees are attac...

Workers' compensation is one area of law that's constantly adapting to the society around it. Some of the changes it goes through are for th...

Representing professional athletes as a workers' compensation lawyer comes with its own unique set of challenges. In this episode of Workers...

For people with long term medical conditions that are expected to keep them from working for more than a year, Social Security will sometime...

In 2011, opera singer Wendy White fell from a platform eight feet above the stage during a performance. She suffered no broken bones, but re...

In the age-old battle of employee versus vending machine, who wins workers' comp? In this episode of Workers Comp Matters , host Judson Pier...

In this episode of Workers Comp Matters , host Judd Pierce talks to Alan Pierce about workers' compensation laws that are affected by consti...

Nowadays, if bakers contract asthma due to flour inhalation, they will almost certainly receive workers' compensation. But this wasn't alway...

We've all clicked through the terms of agreement without a second glance, which means we've also waived some of our rights without a second...

Frances Perkins, as FDR's Secretary of Labor and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet, gave her voice to industrial workers and the...

In this rebroadcast episode of Workers Comp Matters, host Alan Pierce interviews attorney, author, and historian Bob Burke about the implica...

If a worker is injured on the job, workers' comp benefits are provided so they can support themselves while unable to work. But do these ben...

President Trump's administration will no doubt herald significant change for the nation, but what will the change mean for workers' compensa...

In this republished episode of Workers Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce speaks with Rebecca Curtis about her work-related injury, her road to...

Many people have a negative perception of the benefits and treatment one receives through the workers' compensation system. What examples ar...