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What is a legal presumption? Can a legal presumption be rebutted by sufficient contrary evidence? Wisconsin workers' compensation law contains many presumptions. For example, for firefighters, it is presumed that if a firefighter has cancer, the cancer is...
Overall occupational injury rates continued to decline in Wisconsin in 2015, according to data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both public and private sector rates declined, as did rates in the U.S. as a whole, following a downward trend over the...
Mild fall weather in Wisconsin has allowed farmers and their employees extra time to work outside this season. As the opportunity for work increases, the chance for injury and unsafe working conditions continue. Farm employees should always remember that they have the...
A recent study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, in September 2016 reported that obese and overweight workers are more likely to result in higher...
One of the biggest myths or misunderstandings about workers who are collecting workers' compensation benefits is that they do not want to return to work. In most cases, nothing can be further from the truth. Indeed, a major objective of the workers' compensation...
If you are a younger worker, you are more likely to get hurt on the job. That is the conclusion in a recent interesting article in Occupational Health & Safety: Protecting our Future: Young Worker Safety on the Job. The article offers theories on why younger...
State workers' compensation laws are facing increased scrutiny from the federal government. As reported by NPR, the U.S. Labor Department is exploring the idea of further oversight of state-run workers' compensation systems. The full Labor Department report can be...
"He'll never go back to school." "He'll never complete school." As a representative of injured workers, I hear those refrains on repeat from insurance carriers. And, guess what? It's just not true. Vocational retraining claims straddle the line between being a...
If you're an independent contractor and are hurt on the job, what do you do? If you're not carrying your own worker's compensation insurance, you may want to assess whether you've been correctly classified as an independent contractor. Just because an employer calls...
Injured workers now have greater access to vocational retraining benefits. The new law changes, while providing a number of employer-friendlyprovisions, also contained pro-worker enactments-especially for those injured workers who need to go back to school. A major...
