workman's comp

Tara Lynn Bumgardner of Thermopolis is serving up to seven years in prison for misrepresentation or providing false statements to obtain worker’s compensation and for fraudulent attempts to obtain unemployment benefits. DWS Director Joan Evans said, “The Department’s Special Investigation Unit and our partners will continue to aggressively pursue those who attempt to defraud these important progra

Time to move to Australia and schlep our lives away as public servants or crocodile wrestlers. Why? Well, a judge decided that a woman who was injured having sex at an Australian motel while on a work trip is entitled to Workman’s Compensation. How do we get that deal, since the circumstances sound like grounds for a firing? Regardless, what kinda sex was she having that it caused injury? Sounds l

A social worker in a group home for the disabled almost lost his life trying to save residents when a tornado decimated much of Joplin, Missouri this spring. Now, his company’s insurance provider is denying him workman’s compensation.