North Carolina State Legislative Office Building This week Senate Bill 174 passed the House Committee with some changes that preserve the rights of injured workers' to have telephone hearings to get their benefits restarted and medical treatment expedited. For at least the past five years, injured workers' have had the right to have emergency medical [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Jon Gelman from Jon Gelman, LLC – Attorney at Law.Statistics regarding the reporting of accidents have historically been challenged for accuracy as employees have been fearful about reporting events, and employers have been reluctant for numerous reasons, including the potential of increased insurance costs. Now OSHA has taken a [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Charlie Domer from The Domer Law Firm.In many workers’’ compensation cases, Medicare pays medical treatment expenses for an injured worker that may otherwise be the responsibility of the workers’’ compensation insurance carrier. In the past decade, workers’’ compensation practitioners have become well-versed in dealing with Medicare issues and establishing [...]
Many workers' no longer have paid sick days. Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Health Care Is Just The Beginning At a time when a flu epidemic is exploding out of control, killing thousands of people, forty-two million Americans have no sick leave. Many of these people are lower [...]
The U.S. loses more GDP to poor health than Sweden's total GDP Today's post comes from guest author Nathan Reckman from Paul McAndrew Law Firm.The Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a nonprofit health and productivity research organization for businesses, recently reported that poor health costs the U.S. economy $576 billion per year. Of this amount: $227 [...]
Over the past few years, many states have aggressively gone after workers' compensation fraud (whether it's the employee or the employer) and the amount of employer fraud being discovered continues to be staggering, notwithstanding these efforts. Legitimate business owners that pay for workers' compensation, as required by law, are at a competitive disadvantage with those [...]
In light of the horrific elementary school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut last week it may be time to re-evaluate workplace violence, which seems to be increasing at an alarming rate. Technically, workplace violence is any act where an employee is abused, threatened, intimidated, or assaulted in the workplace. It can include threats, harassment, and verbal [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Our law firm recently completed successful litigation involving eight families against various chemical companies. A member of each family got cancer from working at a local plant where industrial solutions were used to make rubber products. Stating the obvious, cancer is universally bad, [...]
A recent fire at a Pakistani garment factory is reminiscent of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fireThe fires in two clothing factories in Pakistan on August 12, 2012, where locked exit doors and lack of safety inspections helped fuel the flames of death for over 300 people, has similarity with the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Edgar Romano from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano of New York.The AFL-CIO has released its 2012 report on worker fatalities which also examines the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) role in ensuring safe workplaces. The AFL-CIO has been producing this report for 21 years, and we [...]