Category Archives: Work-related Deaths

If you work for a company as an independent contractor, you may not have a right to workers’ compensation. That doesn’t mean you can go without coverage of any kind, though, because if you do and get hurt,…

When you got the call that your spouse was killed, you knew that workers’ compensation would kick in. For you, that didn’t seem like enough. You knew that the accident was a result of negligence, and you want…

Employers may never have thought of this before, but if an employee suffers a bug bite that leads to infection or illness while working, they could be held liable for that injury. For example, in California, Lyme disease does…

Something troubling happened in California in 2015. In one year, 388 workers were killed at work. This means that an average of just over one person left for a work shift and didn’t come home each day of…