An employee sought to upgrade his workers’ comp benefits for emotional injuries due to harassment and retaliation at his job. The employer and its insurance company fought the request because the employee also filed a wrongful termination claim. How did a court rule?

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Tags: emotional injuries, harassment, New Hampshire, retaliation, wrongful discharge

Attention, those who believe that OSHA has gone overboard with its workplace safety regulations: You’ve got one less fact to support your argument. When all is said and done, the final count of worker fatalities in 2010 will be higher than in 2009.

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Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, California, construction, Florida, homicides, New Hampshire, OSHA regulations, Pennsylvania, Texas, transportation, violence, worker deaths