Today's post comes from guest author Brianne Rohner, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Before workers'’ compensation was an option in Nebraska, injured workers' could only sue their employers under tort law for damages. While providing complete compensation – i.e., damages such as those for pain and suffering were available – it also required proof of negligence, [...]
On January 23, 2014, a young man, only 30 years old, fell to his death while working on a Raleigh construction site. According to news reports, the deceased was working on scaffolding on an apartment complex and fell approximately five stories. The North Carolina Department of Labor is investigating the accident. It’s unclear exactly what [...]
Professor Leonard T. Jernigan Jr. has compiled a list of 2013's Top 10 Workers' Compensation Fraud Cases Employer Fraud Cases (9):$44,962,492.00 Employee Fraud Cases (1): $1,500,000.00 Total: $46,462,492.00 Every year we hear about fraud in Workers’ Compensation cases and the public believes the fraud is employee driven. However, in 2009 I began [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Tom Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Republican legislators are feeling their oats these days. Throughout the Midwest, legislators are depriving workers' of collective bargaining rights and trying to restrict workers'’ rights in workers'’ compensation claims. In Missouri, workers'’ compensation legislation was recently proposed that would have permitted an employer [...]
Workers' Compensation hearings tend to be relatively cordial Today's post comes from guest author Tom Domer from The Domer Law Firm.I just completed another semester teaching the worker’s compensation course at Marquette University. Part of my responsibility includes instructing students on the ethical practice of worker’s compensation law. I also recently read an article in [...]
Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy Today’s post comes from guest author Jon Gelman from Jon Gelman, LLC – Attorney at Law.The Zadroga 9/11 Victims Claim Fund has started to make payments to victims of the World Trade Center attack. First Responders andthose who lived or worked in the immediate geographical site near “ground [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In 2012, suicides in the U.S. military were at a record high of 349, which was higher than the 295 American combat deaths in Afghanistan in 2012. This number is up from 301 in 2011. The Pentagon has had a difficult time dealing with this epidemic, which likely stems from military personnel being in combat [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Gelman from Jon Gelman, LLC - Attorney at Law.A semiconductor plant worker, who had been exposed to solvents and radiation while working 5 years at a semiconductor factory in South Korea has been held to have suffered an compensable disease related to her exposure at work. The 36 year old [...]