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Jun 01
Ike Davis Injury: First Baseman To Keep Boot On For Three More Weeks
Read More: David Wright (3B – NYM), Ike Davis (1B – NYM), New York Mets New York Mets first baseman Ike Davis injured his left ankle on May 10 after colliding with David Wright on an infield pop-up. Obviously, the Mets wanted their slugging first baseman back as soon as possible, and there were indications …
May 31
Discriminating against Non-Citizens
A review of state and federal laws finds it is illegal for employers to discriminate based on a worker’s citizenship — and there is probably no difference whether the worker is legally or illegally in the United States. Question: Is there any reason why a state antidiscrimination law would not apply to a non-U.S. citizen? …
May 31
Careful Giants Still Break Porcelain Doll
By Mike Silva ~ May 31st, 2011. Filed under: Mike Silva, Outside the Apple. I am not surprised that I received some negative feedback from Giants loyalist after I said the injury to Buster Posey doesn’t deserve a rules change regarding home plate collisions. One area that has been glazed over is the fact that …
May 31
Compensation? No, not really
There is a Republican-sponsored bill in the legislature (HB 709 and SB 544) that will reduce compensation benefits to injured workers, abolish their rights to physician-patient privacy and make it easier for insurance companies to cut off benefits. In order to understand the significance of these changes, it is helpful to understand some history and …
May 24
Worker hurt while eating lunch: Should he get bennies?
Check out this worker’s argument for why he should get workers’ comp benefits, and see if you can guess whether or not they were awarded to him. What happened Herman Huggins, a bricklayer in New York, left his worksite during his lunch break and bought a sandwich. He sat down in a municipal bus shelter …
May 24
State agency fights release of workers’ compensation claims
A state agency has hired a prestigious Chicago law firm at taxpayers’ expense to assist in its appeal of an attorney general’s order to release information related to millions of dollars in settlements paid to Menard prison guards for injuries they say were caused by operating heavy cell locking mechanisms. The state Central Management Services, …
May 23
22 People Hurt as New York City Elevator Falls 3 Floors and Crashes
May 18, 2011 Nearly two dozen people are injured but lucky to be alive after an elevator malfunction caused the car to plunge three stories. The incident occurred about 7:00 am this morning at 620 6th Avenue between 18th and 19th Street in the building where Bed, Bath and Beyond is located in Manhattan’s Chelsea …
May 23
Municipalities ordered to pay millions in back workers compensation
HERKIMER COUNTY, N.Y. (WKTV) – Three Herkimer County municipalities have been ordered by an Oneida County jury to pay the county over $4 million in back workers’ compensation benefits. The ruling comes after a six year lawsuit between the county and the municipalities. In 2005 Herkimer County municipalities withdrew from the Herkimer County Workers’ Compensation …
May 23
How workers’ compensation works
RALEIGH — There are two bills in the legislature (HB 709 and SB 544) that will reduce workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers, abolish their rights to physician-patient privacy and make it easier for insurance companies to cut off benefits. Although there is a possibility that representatives for employers and those for employees will reach …
May 12
Worker Electrocuted Injuries Fatal
New York Construction Worker Electrocuted The worker was fatally injured in a recent workplace accident. The construction worker was working in East Greenbush, approximately150 miles north of Manhattan, when the accident happened. The worker was employed by a paving company and was lowering a light tower at the time the accident happened. According to witnesses, …
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