Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.Seattle Times staff reporter Mike Carter writes that the Port of Bellingham has been ordered to pay $16M in damages to an Alaska Ferries employee injured in 2012. The verdict was returned Friday, April 1st, after a nine-day trial before U.S. District Judge Marsha [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.As this article correctly notes, "Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing"! Our work comp colleague in Pennsylvania are facing further attacks on their workers' compensation system. The article astutely points out: "Across the country, in state houses largely influenced by insurance industry interests, there [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm. For all those concerned about worker’s compensation in our country—which really is all citizens—take a look at this important report on the current status of worker’s compensation systems. The report, from the Worker’s Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG) highlights the scary [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.The American Nursing Association's Handle with Care campaign seeks to educate, advocate, and facilitate change from traditional practices of manual patient handling to emerging, technology-oriented methods. The campaign seeks to highlight how safe patient handling produces benefits to patients and the nursing workforce. The ANA's Handle with [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Legislatures around the country (including ours in Wisconsin) seem to be preoccupied with employee fraud in workers'’ compensation, despite overwhelming evidence that employee fraud is virtually nonexistent. Employer fraud, however, continues to plague the industry. Over the last decade, my friend and colleague [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.Causey Law Firm has taken small steps to implement ergonomic planning in our office. We have one Varidesk sit/stand desktop conversion in use, like the one shown in the video, as well as a fully convertible sit/stand desk and adjustable-height rolling cart in our [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Todd Bennett, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Medical records are necessary to substantiate an injured worker’s claim. At a minimum, injured workers' and attorneys need the records from doctors and hospitals to show the diagnoses the workers' have and the treatment that they have received. This includes records from physical [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kristen Wolf, from Causey Law Firm.Heard on Morning Edition, April 15, 2016. Step into Mike Moon's Madison, Wis., coffee roasting plant and the aroma of beans — from Brazil to Laos — immediately washes over you. Moon says he aims to run an efficient and safe plant — and that starts [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore. In January, I wrote about how workers'’ compensation has a cost-containment industrial complex that not only harms workers' but also is a potential profit generator for groups like private-equity firms. According to this link from The Wall Street Journal, a private-equity firm [...]
Charlie LeDuff’s raw and hard hitting book, “Detroit – An American Autopsy” (287 pages) describes the underbelly of a city that was once powerful and wealthy, but now battles Baltimore for the highest murder rate of any American city and has over 200 unclaimed bodies in the city morgue. It has areas that are vast [...]