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WorkComp Question of the Day: Pre-Employment Physicals and Injury Prevention Correlation?
The Question of the Day: Can Pre-Employment Physicals get us into legal problems if they are used to prevent injuries?
Instead of answering this question I am going to post a recent Press Release issued by the EEOC that involved Pre-Employment...
Law Firm’s Too Old to Own Policy Violation of Age Discrimination Act says EEOC
Kelley Drye & Warren, a law firm with over 300 attorneys, has agreed to end its policy of requiring partners to give up their equity in the firm once they reach 70 years of age and to pay $574,000 to an attorney who continued to practice...
Gerresheimer Pays $90,000 to Settle EEOC Retaliation Lawsuit
Gerresheimer Peachtree City (USA), a plastics manufacturer for the pharmaceutical and health care industry based in Peachtree City, Ga., will pay $90,000 to settle a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
$8.9 Million Workers Comp Settlement the Highest in California History Awarded
Highest Known workers’ compensation insurance settlement in California history, totaling $8.9 million on behalf of his young client who suffered a workplace traumatic brain injury was secured by Attorney Christopher Asvar with Asvar...
NH Supreme Court Rules that Emergency Responders Can Sue Homeowners for Negligence
A local attorney won a precedent-setting N.H. Supreme Court case which now means police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can sue property owners for injuries suffered at the scene of emergencies and caused by neglect,...
CIGNA Sued for Gender Discrimination Employee Seeks $100 Million
The suit states that Cigna treated Bretta Karp and other female employees less favorably than their male peers by denying women rightful promotions and pay raises and fostering a hostile work environment. The lawsuit, which is seeking class-action...
Supreme Court Expands Job Discrimination and Bias Claims
The Supreme Court extended the reach of the federal laws against job discrimination, ruling that employees are protected from illegal bias not just from a top decision maker, but from other supervisors as well.
The justices said the crucial...
Insurance Companies Need to Grow Some Kahunas and Stop the Settlement Cycle
Today, I couldn’t help but think that insurance companies perpetuate the rampant fraud that is systemic in the workers compensation, liability and auto claims process. The Miami Herald wrote an interesting article on a guy that runs around...
New Acord Certificate of Insurance Creates New Challenges for Insureds
By Brent Winans, CPCU, ARM
The Certificate and Evidence of Insurance forms which ACORDÒ made effective in late 2009/early 2010 have raised alarm among insurance certificate holders and the insureds that must provide those certificates. Unless...
World Trade Center Injured Employees Accept $625 Million Settlement
Employees who sustained injuries during the World Trade Center Clean up will share the $625 Million dollar settlement. – (AP Story-By Brian Chappatta) – More than 95.1% of the 10,000 Ground Zero workers accept settlement.
After...
