Today's post was shared by The Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group and comes from www.prnewswire.com The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1973 and charged with protecting the American public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Barbara Tilker, from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano. Veteran’s Day is a day that the American people have set aside to celebrate and honor all those who have served in the armed forces. Veteran’s Day – originally known as Armistice Day – has been celebrated in the [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.With football season upon us, I would like to use football to explain some common situations that employees face. I get a lot of calls from white-collar professionals who have long careers with a company but then are laid off a few months [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.In most instances, an injured worker cannot sue her employer for a workplace injury. However, if an injury results from an employer's reckless, intentional, or illegal action, an injured worker can bring a separate claim against the employer directly. An employer's violation of [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.I found a recent story from California very troubling. The nation’s largest assisted living company agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle claims for underpayment and mistreatment of the workers' who take care of the elderly. Lack of proper overtime pay, lack of [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Susan C. Andrews, from Causey Law Firm. You hear it all over the place these days: there are lots of people out there who lied and cheated to get Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits. I’m here to tell you that is a myth. You don’t have to drill [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Gelman, from Jon L Gelman LLC.Over 140 governments meeting at a United Nations forum in Geneva have agreed to a global, legally-binding treaty to address mercury, a notorious heavy metal with significant health and environmental effects. The Minamata Convention on Mercury – named after a city in Japan [...]
Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy TaylorMayberry was a small town, loosely based on Mount Airy, N.C., the hometown of actor Andy Griffith, who played the part of Sheriff Andy Taylor. Mayberry was a slow, sleepy town where city slickers came by occasionally and Andy or Deputy Barney Fife or some other innocent person smoked them [...]
In reviewing workers'’ compensation legislation since 2010, when the conservative majority took over the government in North Carolina, in Part I it was noted that Deputy Commissioners (administrative law judges) will lose their job security, effective July 1, 2015, and that insurance policies can be cancelled easier to help out general contractors, but what else [...]