Union groups don't like big parts of a new bipartisan proposal in the Senate to save the U.S. Postal Service that would cut services and workers.
An employee of Canada's Outdoor Adventures company admitted to slaughtering 100 sled dogs, according to a workers compensation report he later filed.
It probably would have been just another ho-hum city council budget meeting.
So far, public reaction to the tragic collapse of the Dallas Cowboys' indoor practice facility has understandably reflected sadness, shock and genuine empathy for the 12 injured persons, particularly scout Rich Behm, who was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
The chairman of a House panel says a Pentagon workers' compensation program for civilian employees in Iraq and Afghanistan is a "flagrant abuse of taxpayer dollars."
Dear FSB: I'm in the process of opening a new firm, and I'm trying to find out what the estimated costs of Errors & Omissions Insurance, Group Health Insurance, and Workers Compensation would be. We're a small firm of four workers, all partners, looking for E&O coverage of about $750,000. Can you help?
It seems trouble is following Trouble, Leona Helmsley's beloved pooch.
FSB: Cure Your HR Illsupdated: Thu Mar 01 2007 00:01:00
ELIZABETH BRADT WAS A GREAT VETERINARIAN but a lousy HR manager. Within a year of opening All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Salem, Mass., half her employees had quit. Bradt blamed herself; unsur...
Berkshire Hathaway said late Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire two California workers' compensation firms as the insurance- focused conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett expands its bet on the once-troubled market.
As you watch the Kentucky Derby this Saturday, consider this ... most of the guys hanging by their fingers and toes to those charging 40-mph thoroughbreds are going to walk away with only $50 for their risk.
So you're standing in the yard of your new house--only it's missing its windows, a shower is on the front porch, and there's rainwater inside because of a hole in the roof the size of a Hyundai. Oh...
So you're standing in the yard of your new house - only it's missing its windows, a shower is on the front porch, and there's rainwater inside because of a hole in the roof the size of a Hyundai. Oh, and your contractor? Apparently he's gone into the witness protection program.
The state set a deadline, but Michael Jackson plans to beat it.
California officials have fined Michael Jackson nearly $170,000 and ordered employees at the pop star's Neverland Ranch to stop working, after finding that employees had not been paid since December and the ranch's workers' compensation coverage had been allowed to lapse.
American International Group Inc. agreed to pay $1.6 billion to settle claims related to improper accounting, bid rigging and practices involving workers' compensation funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York State Attorney General's office said Thursday.
Less than 30 hours after the state of West Virginia scrapped its state-run workers' compensation fund and handed the reins to privately owned BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co., the newly formed company was faced with its first tragedy: the Sago Mine explosion.
Gary McLaughlin, an electrical contractor in San Francisco, recently got a call from a real estate agent who needed a house rewired before its new owners moved in. He checked out the house and faxe...
CNNMoney: The Derby's dark sideupdated: Fri May 06 2005 11:43:00
On Saturday millions of Americans will watch the most exploited workers in America for about two minutes -- the nation's jockeys.
In 1992, American International Group Inc.'s (AIG) top lawyer said in a memo to then-Chief Executive Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg that the insurer's reporting of workers' compensation premiums "is permeated with illegality" that was "so serious it could threaten the existence of senior management if disclosed," people who have seen the document told The Wall Street Journal.
THE SHOOTINGS ON Jan. 26 at a Jeep factory in Toledo bring to mind an eerily similar episode of violence that is likely to have serious legal implications for all U.S. employers. On a scorching-hot...
Being poor doesn't mean being jobless, said a recent Challenger, Gray & Christmas report that found more and more working families are living at or below the poverty line.
There is no more interesting tale of power--how to get it, how to leverage it, how to wield it--than the one unfolding now in Sacramento. Here, a deeply bronzed, well-chiseled creature of Hollywood...
In real life, what could be called Erin Brockovich moments occur very rarely. Lawsuits by injured victims are common enough. But they almost never make it to trial. Rarer still is the tingling mome...
Two weeks before the recall election, California corporate leaders took an extraordinary step. On Sept. 22, 30 prominent CEOs--including Craig Barrett of Intel, Carly Fiorina of HP, and David Pottr...
Until Oct. 24, 1997, I thought I was doing all I could to prevent employees from getting hurt. Then a young printing-press operator tripped, fell into a press at my family's plastic-bag factory, an...
Some folks call California the Golden State. I just call it expensive. Consider this: My family's plastic-bag-manufacturing company is forking over three times the national average for electricity,...
The insurance industry wasn't the direct target of the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, but it might as well have been. First, there were the lost lives and business disruptions inflicted on insurers,...
For insurers, the only certain outcome of the World Trade Center catastrophe will be massive claims, endless litigation--and a price tag that could reach $30 billion, a number that would far exceed...
FSB: Live Wireupdated: Fri Jun 01 2001 00:01:00
Now that Congress has repealed the ergonomics standard, are small businesses off the hook? Not exactly. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration can still levy fines and demand workplace c...
DEAR ANNIE: I've been with my current employer for 22 years. A few months ago we reached a mutual agreement to part ways at the end of 2000. In the meantime, one of my children was diagnosed with c...
Wal-Mart Woes, Part II: When Donald Gaffney sued Wal-Mart in 1996 for trademark violation, he never pictured himself at the Supreme Court. But when Wal-Mart lost two lower-court rulings for what a ...
Recently I called a highly reputable nanny placement agency in Manhattan to inquire about hiring a babysitter for my new son. "Will this be on or off the books?" asked the proprietress, matter-of-f...
The controversial trial of English au pair Louise Woodward in Cambridge, Mass. has surely fed parents' fears about child care. Fortunately, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect says abuse...
You probably thought you had your child-care problems licked when you found the perfect nanny or babysitter, right? Little did you know your difficulties were just beginning. Unless you've hired a ...
Although he was making good money as a paper salesman in Chicago last year, Dave Kehlor, 30, knew he was destined to run his own business. Luckily for him, his wife Eunice, 29, had caught the entre...
The belief that stable jobs would deliver steadily improving living standards has long been one of the major REM cycles of the American dream. But today a queasy sense of insecurity haunts many wor...
Answer true or false. Legally, your boss can: Rifle through your desk drawers. Videotape you without your knowledge. Read E-mail and computer files addressed solely to you. Eavesdrop on your phone...
LESLIE DANZIGER OF LIGHT Path Technologies in Tucson can't actually prove that being a woman hindered her efforts to raise money for her company, which makes powerful optical glass for cameras, bin...
AT A TIME when corporate managers are doggedly driving out every excess cost, some executives still view workers' compensation as an intractable cost of doing business. But an increasing number are...
THINGS HAPPEN FIRST in California, and then they reach out to the rest of America and often to the rest of the world. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Well, if the conventional wisdom is right, ...
THE WORKERS' compensation system is socking it to companies, and they are howling. Last year employers had to pour more than $70 billion into this insurance program, which covers workers hurt on th...
WHAT WE DON'T understand about stress could fill volumes. And it does. Some books say stress is an invigorating tonic; others, that it's lethal. Stress stands implicated in practically every compla...
Lee Levant, 41, is back at work as a railroad switchman. Meanwhile, CSX, the railroad company that employs him, may have to pay Levant $1 million. That's the amount a Savannah, Georgia, jury awarde...
Looking to unload an odd lot of stock? Even a discount broker will probably charge a minimum of $35 to sell anything under 100 shares, so if you get rid of ten shares at, say, $17 each, his commiss...
For today's two-paycheck parents, nothing outranks the importance of lining up competent child care. But finding professional live-in help turns many parents , into either paupers or criminals. Tra...
The liability problems are no longer the news they were several years ago when insurance premiums exploded and coverage often vanished. But the effects are still with us. The playground equipment a...
If you are still unsure whether the new Administration will keep the economy growing or trigger a recession, restrain inflation or unleash it again, send stocks and bonds to record highs or to frig...
THE SPECTER of takeovers is haunting a lot of Americans -- and not just because junk bonds might prove junk indeed or because spooked managers might cling harder to short-term concerns. Many also f...
Workers' Compensation death benefits for the family of a roofer who was killed when he fell from a building where he was stealing copper material for salvage have been upheld by the Appellate Divis...
SALEM, ORE. -- A harried . . . union chief who suffered a disabling stroke while having sex is entitled to $950.30 a month in workers' compensation benefits, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled yeste...
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