Monthly Archives:: April 2012

Australian Woman Receives Work Comp for Work Trip Sex Injury

Recently, Australian courts were asked to decide whether an individual who was injured while having sex during a work trip could be eligible for Workers’ Comp benefits. In this case, a public servant was injured while having sex in a hotel room on a work trip. The higher court in Australia recently determined that the… Read more »

California Workers’ Comp Overhaul

California’s work comp system, specifically the mandatory insurance program, is changing. The objective of the overhaul is to provide better insurance for injured workers without causing business premiums to rise. They are attempting to accomplish this goal by squeezing waste out of the state’s $15 billion work comp system. The average compensation paid to California… Read more »