Workers Compensation

Woman Hurt During Sex Wins Workers' Comp Suit

Newser | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Hotel Room Sex Injury, Workers' Compensation, Australia, Sex Injury, Sex Injury Earns Woman Workers' Comp, Sex Injury Earns Workman's Comp, Workman's Comp, Weird News News

An Australian judge has ruled that a woman who got injured during sex is entitled to workers' comp. It seems she was out of town on business and br...

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North Carolina To Employers: Pay For Worker Injuries Or Go To Jail

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: North Carolina Worker Injuries, Video, North Carolina Workers, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation Insurance, Work-Related-Injuries, Business News, North-Carolina-Workers-Compensation, Business News

Several business owners in one state will have to cough up some cash for injured employees. Well, that or they can go to jail. One North Carolina ...

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Alice Hines

Forever Unpaid: Forever 21 Hit With Class Action Lawsuit By Employees

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: California, Workers Compensation, Forever-21-Lawsuit, Loss Prevention, Class Action Lawsuit, Forever 21 Class Action Lawsuit, Forever 21, Bag Checks, Business News

Forever 21 is being sued yet again. But this time, it's not other fashion brands claiming copyright infringement -- it's the company's own workers, wh...

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John Celock

Governor's Husband Given Permission For Legal Work

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Mary Fallin, Video, Governors' Spouses, Wade Christensen, State Ethics Commission, Workers Compensation, State and Local Government, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma-Politics, Oklahoma Ethics Commission, Workers Compensation Law, Politics News

Oklahoma ethics officials have granted permission for the husband of Gov. Mary Fallin (R) to do business with two parts of state government. Falli...

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Dave Jamieson

Senators Set To Slash Benefits For Disabled Civil Servants

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: United States Postal Service Cuts, Susan Collins, Disabled, Video, Super Committee, Postal Service, Workers Comp, Budget Cuts, Workers Compensation, Joe Lieberman, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking to cut benefits for federal workers disabled on the job, a budget-trimming move that critics warn ...

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Indiana Postal Worker Admits To Sex Toy Shop Fraud

Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Ebay, Fraud, Sex Toy, Post Office, Indictment, Indiana, Chopper's Playhouse, Chopper Loughran, Postal Worker, Sex Toy Shop, Mail Woman, Worker's Compensation, Chicago News

An Indiana postal worker faces up to five years in prison for fraud after claiming she had no income while secretly managing an online sex toy shop ca...

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A Wisconsin Centennial Worth Celebrating

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Post Office, Kennedy, Labor, Stamp, Fighting Bob, La Follette, Compensation, Usps, Democrats, Workmans Comp, Progressive, Workplace, Wisconsin, Centennial, Postal Service, Workmens Comp, Workers Comp, Work, Chris Weigant, Robert La Follette, Workers Compensation, Gaylord Nelson, Injury, Workers Comp Centennial, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Since the news yesterday was a bit depressing for progressives, I thought it was time to mark an important upcoming centennial: on the first of September in 1911, the first constitutional workers' compensation law took full effect in Wisconsin.

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State's Insurer Cuts And Runs

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Colorado Workers Compensation, Colorado Insurance, Hickenlooper Cuts Pinnacol, Pinnacol Assurance, Suzi Stolte, Workers Compensation, Denver News

DENVER — A Colorado-chartered workers' compensation insurer will no longer administer the claims of state employees following disagreements with...

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Illinois House Rejects Overhaul Of Workers' Compensation System

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Pat Quinn, Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois-Workers-Compensation, Workers Compensation, Chicago News

SPRINGFIELD -- A workers compensation package championed by Gov. Pat Quinn went down to dramatic defeat Sunday, killed by House Republicans who worrie...

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Dave Jamieson

Workers Comp Programs Under Attack

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Workers Compensation Debate, Labor, Workers Compensation, Workers-Compensation-Commission, Illinois-Workers-Comp, North Carolina Workers Compensation, Afl-Cio, Montana Workers Compensation, Chamber of Commerce, Unions, Business News

Former cop Bill Fournier told the Maine state legislature last week about the time he responded to a crime scene and found a 4-year-old girl burned al...

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FORGOTTEN: Injured Oil Refinery Contractors Find Few Remedies

The Center for Public Integrity | Jim Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Worker's Compensation, Oil Refineries, Oil Worker Injuries, Oil Workers, Refinery Contractors, Business News

Some refinery workers are killed on the spot and duly memorialized, their survivors compensated financially for expenses, pain and suffering. Others, ...

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The Widening Gap Between Company Productivity And Workers Wages 'Redolent Of Scrooge' [CHART]

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Businesses, Economy, Wages, Workers Compensation, Economic Growth, Business News, Average Wage, Recession, Productivity, Business News

As corporate America picks up steam -- The Economist described the current profit-reporting season as "shaping up to be one of the best ever" -- when ...

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Modern Medicine: Healing or Stealing?

Judith Acosta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oprah, Modern Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Stealing, Community, Worker's Compensation, Doctors, Healers, Insurance Companies, God, Verbal First Aid, Medicine, Professional Relationships, Greece, Personal Health, Home News
Judith Acosta

I am as certain as I can be of anything in this fallen world that my father did not go into medicine to get rich or famous; now it's a different story.

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Open Letter to IRS: End Employee Misclassification Now

Louis Provenzano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Treasury Department, Uncollected Taxes, Employees, Workers, Language Interpretation Industry, Irs, Social Security, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Worker Misclassification, Department of Labor, Obama Administration, Obama, Employee Misclassification, Misclassification, Justice Department, Minnesota, Misclassification Law, Politics, Language, Dol, Language Interpretation, Federal Government, Maine, Workers Compensation, Breaking Politics News, Payroll, Payroll Costs, U.S. Department of Labor, Politics News
Louis Provenzano

It's time for the IRS to get serious about the practice of employee misclassification, which will continue to add billions in tax losses if left unchecked.

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The Ports Challenge

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, James Galbraith, Port of Long Beach, Port of Seattle, Pollution, Environmental Groups, Teamsters Union, Port of Los Angeles, Southern California, Low Wages, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Workers Compensation, Greenhouse Gases, Port of Newark, Port of Oakland, Medicare, American Trucking Associations, Los Angeles News
James P. Hoffa

I hate to think we've become a country that has lost the concept of public purpose, a country that allows corporations to poison the people who live nearby. But apparently they're too much for the trucking industry.

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Chimp Attack Cop's PTSD Claim Denied After Shooting Animal

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chimp Attack Shooting, Travis the Chimp, Shooting, Chimp Attack, Police Officers, Connecticut, Ptsd, New York, Shooting Animals, Worker's Compensation, New York News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A police officer who shot and killed a chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied a claim for workers' comp...

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Widow Stuck With Bill After Insurer Approved Husband's Treatment

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Insurance, Avastin, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Robert Stecker, Workers-Compensation, Medical-Debt, Fanny Gonzalez, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, John Goucher, Kenny White, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Business News

As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Fanny Gonzalez's husband ...

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McDonald's McScrews Hero Out of Money [UPDATED]

David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Little Rock, Arkansas, McDonald's, Compensation, Mickey D's, Nigel Haskett, Workers-Compensation, Haskett Shooting, Video, McDonald's Shooting, Nigel Haskett Video, Mcdonald's Employee, Mcdonald's Employee Denied, Mcdonalds Hero, Mcdonalds Comp, Ray Nosler Mcdonalds, Politics News
David Weiner

A Huffington Post commenter received an email from McDonald's (reprinted here) saying that the franchise owner is now offering to pay for all medical costs if Haskett loses his appeal.

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State Shortchanged Hurt Workers For 30 Years

Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Workers Comp, Workers' Compensation Commission, Workers Compensation, Susan Piha, Illinois Workers Compensation, Chicago News

Oops! The state unit that handles compensation claims for injured workers has concluded that Illinois short-changed at least some beneficiaries and th...

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Top 10 Most Painful Professions

abcnews.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Chronic Pain, Painful Jobs, Jobs, Job Market, Blogging, Worker's Compensation, Healthy Living News

No matter how much you love your job, there always will be days of strain and headaches. But for some, work brings daily aches and pains that can deve...

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