The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered more than $1 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 196 employees of Bowlin Group LLC and Bowlin Services LLC out of Ohio and Kentucky. Bowlin Services installed cable for Insight Communications, a cable, telephone and Internet provider in Kentucky. The defendants misclassified 77 employees as independent [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Rod Rehm from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Truckers are frequently entitled to benefits from multiple states for an injury. Each state sets rules for applying its workers’ compensation laws. Virtually all states cover accidents that happen in that state. Many states allow benefits if the employer has it primary location [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Edgar Romano from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.This has been a tragic week in our country. Monday’s Boston Marathon attack was followed by Wednesday’s massive blast at the West Fertilizer Company in Texas. As I write, the final death toll from the West Fertilizer Co. fire has [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Ryan Benharris from Deborah G. Kohl Law Offices.In December, 2010, the Social Security Administration (SSA) implemented a set of rules put in place to enable more effective case review. One of the major changes was that Applicants will no longer know who their Administrative Law Judge is prior to [...]
Earlier this year, North Carolina OSHA released a report stating that job-related deaths were decreasing. In fact, the report stated there were only 35 workplace deaths in North Carolina in 2012. However, as we mentioned in our earlier blog from this year (North Carolina Workplace Deaths Lower in 2012), these statistics appeared artificially low. The [...]
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Today's post comes from guest author from Jon Gelman, LLC - Attorney at Law.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is proposing to restrict the use of hand-held mobile telephones, including hand-held cell phones, by drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) while operating in interstate commerce. Cell phones have become [...]
You aren't prohibited from returning to work after being on Social Security Disability Today's post comes from guest author Barbara Tilker from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.Many of the people that I’ve spoken to over the years are under the impression that once you get Social Security Disability (SSD) you have to remain [...]
Workers have flooded North Dakota to work in the booming oil industry. Today's post comes from guest author Jay Causey from Causey Law Firm.A recent article in the New York Times (An Oil Boom Takes a Toll on Health Care, January 28, 2013) recounted the growing burden on North Dakota hospitals because of on-the-job injuries [...]
Connecticut’s workers’ compensation law does not currently cover mental injuries which do not stem from a physical injury. Today’s post comes from guest author Tom Domer from The Domer Law Firm.Following the Connecticut school shootings, unions representing police and firefighters and school employees have held discussions about laws to expand situations under which worker’s comp [...]