Today's post was shared by The Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group and comes from www.chicagotribune.com Sheriff Tom Dart The Cook County Board next week is expected to approve spending $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that Sheriff Tom Dart retaliated against deputies who backed his political opponent when he first sought the job [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.Connections brought me in touch with a poet from Eastern Washington, Charlie Hopkins. I found that several of his poems describe work, workers', the aches and pains of growing older and the ties that bind us all together. The following poem caught my eye: [...]
According to Max Lucado, the Greek word for compassion is “splanchnizomai” and medical students know that splanchnology is the study of the gut. A few days ago a workers' compensation client died of a massive heart attack, and when her husband called to tell me of her death I had that gut-wrenching experience of realizing [...]
Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.nytimes.com It is hard to image that any other Industry that denies its employees workers'’s compensation benefits for known work-connected injuries would be bragging about a mere 13% reduction in head injuries. That is what the NFL is doing this week in advance [...]
Ten Things I Wish I Knew As a Young Lawyer Representing Plaintiffs: 1. Make a “to-do list” before you start work and prioritize that list into a top ten. At the end of the day, check off what you have accomplished and then start a new list. 2. Be honest in all things, at all [...]
Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.nytimes.comAs intriguing football matchups go, Sunday’s Super Bowl has nothing on one looming down the turnpike in federal court in Philadelphia — with Judge Anita B. Brody the ultimate referee.Brody, considering the N.F.L.'s recent settlement with 4,500 retirees over work-related brain injuries, has [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore. Comments made by “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson, in an interview with GQ magazine, have set off a social media and cable news firestorm about the role of free speech in the employee-employer relationship. But neither side in the Duck Commander debate [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm. Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation in Wisconsin will change substantially in 2014. For more than 70 years, an employee would only be found ineligible for Unemployment Compensation if he quit a job or was found guilty of “misconduct”. Misconduct was defined under a [...]
Today's post was shared by The New York Times and comes from www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON — One of the world’s biggest clothing buyers, the United States government spends more than $1.5 billion a year at factories overseas, acquiring everything from the royal blue shirts worn by airport security workers' to the olive button-downs required for forest [...]
Trichloroethylene Today's post comes from guest author Jon Gelman, from Jon L Gelman LLC.Study published linkig trichloroethylene exposure to cancer. The chemical compound trichloroethylene (C2HCl3) is a chlorinated hydrocarbon commonly used as an industrial solvent. It is a clear non-flammable liquid with a sweet smell. Objectives We evaluated the association between occupational exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE) and [...]