Today’s post comes to us from my colleague Jon Gelman of New Jersey. For decades railroad equipment, including engines, were heavily insulated with asbestos fiber, a known carcinogen and causally related to mesothelioma, a rare and fatal cancer. Many lawsuits have been filed by victims and their families to recover benefits against the suppliers, manufacturers [...]
Today’s post comes to us from Jon Gelman of New Jersey. In today’s tough economy, temporary employment is a holiday blessing for many, but it can come with some very real dangers. This holiday season, more than in the past, there will be a serious challenge to workers’ who are taking on temporary jobs. As [...]
Today’s post comes to us from my colleague Tom Domer of Wisconsin. This is isn’t the first post that has appeared on this blog on unethical and illegal employer practices. In the future, we will continue to cover issues like cost shifting and worker misclassification, which pose ever increasing problems for today’s workers’. Seasoned workers’ compensation [...]
Many people are confronted with death or disability whether as a result of an accident or otherwise. We do our best to help those who were wronged by another or hurt on the job to receive compensation for their injuries. But compensation cannot cure the underlying problem, only help to make life more bearable. True [...]
I grew up in Chapel Hill, N.C. and graduated from the University of North Carolina when the concept of big-time football was not an issue. In Chapel Hill the NCAA was known primarily for imposing sanctions on basketball and eliminating the Dixie Classic, a holiday tournament in the early 60’s which brought visiting teams to [...]
In The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood by Jane Leavy, the author goes into great detail about Mickey’s father, Mutt Mantle, who worked in a lead mine in Commerce, Oklahoma in the 1930s and 40s. Silicosis (a fibrosis of the lung caused by rock dust) was the feared disease of [...]
Earlier this week, I shared a post with some tips for workers’ compensation attorneys on how to deal with difficult doctors. In this follow-up post, I’ll share a few more ideas on how to get down to the truth of the matter when the doctor on your case is tough to work with. (8) [...]
A doctor’s opinion is crucial to every workers’’ compensation claim. Most doctors give honest and rational opinions. As we all know, however, there are some physicians who have a different agenda and either do not take the time to properly evaluate a patient or they intentionally downplay the potential seriousness of the injury. For attorneys [...]
All employees should be on the lookout for signs that their employer or potential employer is engaging in workers’ compensation fraud. The list of signs below was inspired by this one from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. These signs may indicate that your employer is not paying workers’ compensation insurance for their [...]
One hundred and forty six garment workers’ died on March 26, 1911 in a fire that was New York’s deadliest workplace disaster until the attack on the World Trade Center 100 years later. Fire doors were locked. Trapped workers’ either jumped to their deaths from the 9th and 10th floors, or were consumed by the [...]