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Mar 30
Ruling prevents NFL from applying workers comp benefits offset
NEW YORK—A federal judge ruled National Football League team owners cannot apply a certain offset against workers compensation benefits paid to former players injured while playing. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, ruled Friday that contract language does not allow the team owners to apply …
Mar 23
Special Report: Workers’ Compensation History
Pirates of the 18th century and a 19th century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern U.S. workers’ compensation system owes parts of its existence to this parentage. Arrrrg, I’m Hurt! Pirates, contrary to popular myth, proved to be highly …
Mar 22
Developers in New York Try to Ease Prickly Relations
The subway escalators that run under the brick high-rise at the corner of East 15th Street in Union Square have long been in a near-constant state of disrepair. The developer of the building, a condominium named Zeckendorf Towers, built the escalators in the 1980s as a public benefit in exchange for approvals to develop the …
Mar 22
Contact Sports Injuries
What is an impact contact sport? Sport like hockey, football, rugby especially on a pro level, can result in serious injuries. Injuries come with the territory for professional athlete’s. Keep in mind though not just professional athletes run the risk of injury, any person on the football field, swimming, shooting hoops, hitting the ski slopes, …
Mar 22
Sports injuries and rehab: Elbow dislocations
What is an Elbow Dislocation? The elbow is a hinge joint, or a ball and socket joint, that is made up of three bones that come together. The first bone is in the upper arm and is called the humerus. The other two bones are in the lower arm and are known as the ulna …
Mar 22
Accountant Arrested For Falsifying Payroll Records
NEW YORK, NY (03/15/2011)(readMedia)– An accountant was arrested Monday for falsifying the payroll records of a Syracuse cab driver who was killed in a January 2009 robbery so it would appear that the driver was working for a company covered by workers’ compensation insurance. Vincent Kukys, 66, is accused of changing the payroll records of …
Mar 22
100-year-old fire gave birth to worker rights
Editor’s note: Steve Fraser is a writer, historian and editor-at-large of the journal New Labor Forum. His first book, “Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor,” won the Philip Taft prize for the best book in labor history. He is a visiting professor at New York University. New York (CNN) — …
Mar 22
Workers’ Compensation Reform: Saving Money or Shifting Costs?
For the second time in six years, the North Carolina legislature is considering amendments to the workers’ compensation benefits. Among the heavily debated proposals is the elimination of lifetime disability benefits — instead injured workers would be limited to nine and one-half years of benefits. Business Competition and Job Creation in North Carolina Some proponents …
Mar 14
Which gender should pay more car insurance?
Recently, my attention has been caught by a rather interesting debate that seems to have come out of nowhere (possibly hidden in the deluge of media coverage of the various Middle Eastern uprisings). After it emerged that the EU’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ruled against the legality of insurance companies to discriminate on …
Mar 14
Screening With Meaning
Sophisticated urine analysis of employees on workers’ comp could become a bulwark in the fight to control the epidemic use and abuse of narcotics. As a method to detect whether an injured worker is taking the medications prescribed to them, the use of quantitative clinical urine analysis hasn’t really come into vogue just yet. According …