Blue Cross Blue Shield has created an online pricing tool to help patients compare prices of about 1,200 non-emergency medical procedures. Patients can now search for the best financial deal for services offered within North Carolina. By exposing this previously undisclosed information, patients are now able to go and see services according to the databases [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has cited an Everett company for multiple safety violations related to the death of a worker last July. Nineteen-year-old Bradley Hogue was killed by a rotating auger while working inside the hopper of a bark-blower truck at [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.As a worker’s compensation lawyer, I see many news stories through the prism of how the news event or trend will affect injured workers' in the worker’s compensation system. A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that Honeywell, Inc. can begin penalizing workers' [...]
Have you noticed a suspicious vehicle lurking in your neighborhood lately, or is there a stranger that seems to be everywhere you go? If you have an active workers'’ compensation claim, then you may not be imaging things. More and more, we are seeing insurance companies willing to spend thousands of dollars to hire private [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm. The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has cited two employers for violations that exposed workers' to asbestos during the demolition of a Seattle apartment building. Asbestos can cause cancer and other fatal illnesses. An L&I investigation into the Seattle project found a [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Frank Francis, from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.I have been carefully following the Ebola outbreak, both the cases in the United States and those around the world. I am saddened to see anyone suffer from this horrible virus, but the preventable infections, including the infection of multiple health [...]
“Decimated.” That is the word the Honorable Circuit Court Judge Jorge Cueto used to describe what’s left of Florida’s Workers’ Compensation Act after a series of reforms, notably in 2003, which attacked injured workers'’ rights and benefits. After 2003 Florida became one of the most restrictive workers'’ compensation jurisdictions in the nation. As it currently [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Truck drivers have a remedy if fired for making a workers'’ compensation claim. A recent award of over $100,000 to a truck driver who was fired for making a workers'’ compensation claim illustrated the protection drivers have under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.The Kansas Supreme Court has just reversed a State Appeals Court finding that an oil field worker was not entitled to worker’s compensation benefits after he was injured while riding home from his workplace. The case is David C. Williams v. Petromark Drilling, [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Todd Bennett, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Do you drive a company vehicle as part of your job? Many find themselves in the situation where they travel regularly, or on a special errand from time to time, as part of their job. In the unfortunate scheme of things, if you [...]