We all depend on the money we make to support ourselves and our families. But for employees who suffer a workplace injury or illness, the income that protects our livelihood often comes to a screeching halt. That’s why filing a workers’ compensation claim is so important, as is understanding your average weekly wage. This blog...
An Australian investigation into that country’s workers’ compensation system shines a disturbing light on a labor problem that is universal, even in Nebraska: Insurers will delay, deny, and defend their clients to avoid paying rightful benefits to injured employees. “Although this worker is in Australia, the problems, the fight, and his story is almost exactly...
The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged many of us – including our employers – to take public health and safety much more seriously. At the same time, quarantine life is turning out to be something of a global experiment in working from home, as a sizable chunk of the world’s workforce has taken refuge from the coronavirus...
Our country is practicing social distancing, a term that is becoming widely used in everyone’s vocabulary since coronavirus began spreading in the United States. While it is something we didn’t commonly practice before March, most of us will be well acquainted with what it means over the coming weeks and possibly months. All in an...
