Posts tagged compensation

• Wyoming Looks To Improve Worker Safety

  Pete Mackey | April 21, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Wyoming lawmakers are taking steps to improve on the state’s abysmal work safety record. Wyoming had more work place fatalities per 100,000 workers than any other state in 2007. To Governor...

• Alabama Unemployment Compensation Benefits - Look Before You Leap

  Pete Mackey | February 21, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In recent cases, the Alabama Supreme Court has held that an unemployment compensation (UC) agency hearing officer’s ruling can have a preclusive effect on the claims and defenses of both...

• AIG - Workers Compensation - The Bailout

  Jon Lewis | January 08, 2009 1:24 PM | 14 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Well, I have just seen first hand what the bailout has done for AIG: made them even more heartless and cold than ever before. We represent a family who lives in Mexico. Their son was employed by a...

• Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

  Jon Lewis | August 09, 2008 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In today's Birmingham News, there were two letters to the editor. One is entitled, "Follow basic driving rules", and the other is, "Be courteous when driving". Each article discusses driving and...

• Arkansas Court Rules Injury not Work Related, Workers' Comp Denied

  Chrissie Cole | October 03, 2007 3:04 AM | 0 CommentsGadsden, AL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled a school custodian who was injured while parking his car on campus after running a personal errand, should not receive workers' compensation benefits.The ruling, on Wednesday, reversed a state Workers' Compensation Commission decision, which had decided the employee, had returned to his employer's premises and was on-call at the time of the accident.The...