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I don’t know about you but it felt like I gained 156 pounds last weekend. Who knew that eating an entire pumpkin pie in one sitting could lead to weight gain? Let’s face it, its food season.

In 2007 California’s State Fund for Workers’ Compensation sued a company named Onvoi Staffing alleging that Onvoi had bilked them out of over eight million dollars in unpaid premiums dating back to 2002 and 2003.

Ok let’s get this out of the way. This is not true.

Workplace injuries are bad news. They are bad for the injured worker, bad for your bottom line, bad for morale, and they leave a competence gap in your workforce that affects everyone.

I don’t know about you but I have Thanksgiving and Workers’ Compensation fraud on the brain this week. I was looking around for a good Thanksgiving related story to keep us in a festive mood. Maybe something along the lines of, “restaurant worker strains back lifting 50 pound turkey carcass for Thanksgiving meal”.  Or, woman […]

Can you as a primary contractor be held liable under your own workers’ compensation insurance policy should an employee of one of your subcontractors be injured, even if it’s a subcontractor that’s way down on the chain of subs? Courts have on numerous occasions said you are. Many times the injured worker may even be […]

Here’s the deal. Your worker gets injured and files for Workers’ Compensation and your insurer sends out a standard letter explaining benefits.