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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Calling Time Out on Your Child’s Sports Injuries

Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Sports Medicine Expert Offers Five Tips for Parents on Preventing Their Children’s Sports Injuries Newswise — NEW YORK (April 28, 2011) — With spring here and summer on the way, children are back on the field and ready to score one for the team. Unfortunately, this also means more opportunities for …

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Workers’ comp bars flight attendant families’ claims, Colgan Air says

May 3 (Westlaw Journals) –  New York workers’ compensation laws bar claims brought by the families of two flight attendants killed in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Buffalo, flight operator Colgan Air says. In a motion and memorandum filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, Colgan …

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