When workers suffer injuries on the job, or sustain illness or injury away from the job that result in absence from work, in some cases disability or workers' compensation benefits are available.

Employees often confuse workers’ compensation insurance with disability insurance. They may look similar at first glance because both deal with loss of income and physical injury or illness. But the ...

Washington lawmakers are weighing changes to workers’ comp that would tighten medical provider standards and boost long-term disability benefits for injured workers with families.

The Division of Workers’ Compensation has announced the 2026 rate increases for the minimum and maximum rates of temporary ...

Corinne Spencer and Antwoin Wall are senior and associate counsel, respectively, at Pearlman, Brown & Wax, LLP. Views are the authors' own. In California, workers' compensation claims often lead to ...

Workers who have been partially disabled on the job may soon get more relief from their employers. For the first time since 2016, state lawmakers are poised to increase the cap on payments employers ...

Every servicemember enters and leaves the armed forces with a medical examination. That procedural fact reflects the original logic behind what the Department of Veterans Affairs calls “disability ...