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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 …

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Contact Sports Injuries

Acute & Chronic 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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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) — …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Q&A: The Labor Legacy of the Triangle Fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which claimed the lives of 146 mostly female immigrant garment workers in 1911, is credited with galvanizing support for labor unions, as well as spurring reforms in workplace safety and city building codes. As we prepare to mark the 100th anniversary of the tragic fire, Metropolis spoke to Cornell University’s Lee …

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Motor vehicle accident injuries: Physical therapy techniques the best treatment option

Each year, 2 million Americans suffer from whiplash associated disorders (WAD) secondary to motor vehicle accidents. Studies using high-speed cameras and sophisticated crash dummies have determined that rear impact car accidents cause the lower cervical vertebrae (lower bones in the neck) to be forced into a position of hyperextension (movement of the vertebrae backward) while …

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