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 [...]
Having a lung ailment may make it more difficult to obtain coverage for joint replacement. Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.A new Medicare rule that took effect April 1, 2016 retools Medicare payments for hip and knee replacements. Patients with serious medical conditions such as heart disease, obesity, [...]
According to The New York Times, employers are reporting difficulty in finding workers' who can pass a pre-employment drug test and many applicants do not even apply for jobs when drug testing is a requirement. Some industries, like trucking, are mandated by federal law to drug test their employees for safety reasons. Since 2013 Quest [...]
I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago, just casually walking down Montgomery Street when I saw a sign on the sidewalk that said: “Church of Scientology – All are Welcome.” I had just read Lawrence Wright’s book, “Going Clear” which told in chilling detail the inside story of this “religion” and I quickly [...]
Today's post was shared by US Labor Department and comes from blog.dol.govA group of Boise construction workers' listen to a presentation during the National Safety Stand-Down this May. For us at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the loss of one workers'’ life is one too many. Workplace tragedies are devastating for the families and [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.I just returned from New Orleans where I made a presentation to about 150 workers'’ compensation lawyers (both for workers' and for employers) on “Case and Client Evaluation In Workers’ Compensation”. Since many in the audience represented insurance companies and employers, I paid [...]