California updates in category: Workplace Injuries

ORLAND, California. The Chico Enterprise Record reported that two ranch hands were seriously injured yesterday when an irrigation well that they were working on suddenly exploded with flame. The...

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I was talking with a friend regarding a recent incident that has been the hot topic in the Stockton local news recently. My friend is a rancher and employs migrant workers to pick and prune his...

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The explosion at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton that injured 13 workers is still under investigation. Investigators from California Occupational Safety and Health Administration have been sifting...

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A man has filed a lawsuit in West Virginia after he claims he was fired after he filed a Workers' Compensation claim. He was injured in a truck accident while working for Catenary Coal Company. The accident happened in June 2007. The company claims he was fired for drug use.In August 2007, two months after his accident, Bishop was randomly drug tested, which came back positive with reports of...

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An advisory committee has ruled that Workers' Compensation rates in California do not need to be changed mid-year. The Workers' Compensation Insurance Ratings Bureau is set to meet next in August to discuss rates for 2009. Rates are evaluated twice a year and findings are submitted to the state's Insurance Commissioner. Mid-year filings usually are "limited to instances of major changes in...

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A Carmichael man is being charged with workers' compensation fraud after collecting over $150,000 from the state of California. He was a worker at the Preston Youth Correctional Facility and claims he was assaulted by an inmate there. He claims his injuries were so severe he could not work. The following day, Bourdaniotis allegedly took and passed the Department of Real Estate's salesperson...

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The University of Missouri-Kansas City's pockets are a little lighter after they settled a one million dollar lawsuit that was filed due to sexual harassment of two of their professors. In the complaint that was filed two women, Linda Garavalia and Megan Pinkston-Camp, claim that the university did absolutely nothing after getting complaints about the sexual misconduct. The accused professors...

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Judge W. Fred. Axley, 70 was originally elected in 1982 as a Criminal Court judge in Shelby County, Florida. Of late, he was permanently barred from a Florida resort due to a sexual harassment complaint made by one of the resort's female employees. Since that time, he has announced his retirement, while stating that the sexual harassment complaint had nothing to do with his decision to retire....

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Liz Overstreet filed a wrongful termination complaint to the Texas Work Force Commission in February of this year. Additionally, she filed a complaint with the Texas Judicial Commission. Overstreet claims that she was sexually harassed by the Lubbock County Sheriff's Court Bailiff Leroy Morrison. More specifically, her claim centers around inappropriate hugging by Morrison. Overstreet further...

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Sexual harassment has been a problem for a very long time. However, in years gone by it was much more toleraded then it is today. In fact, in years gone by sexual harassment was not recognised by many as being harassment at all. It is definitely something that is not taken lightly and can land a perpetrator in a very regretful situation. Recently, the vehicle emissions manager, Timothy Kulish,...

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On Wednesday, the former Israeli justice minister Haim Ramon, was found guilty of sexual misconduct against a young female solder. Ramon was accused of forcibly kissing a 20-year-old soldier. 1. The kiss (sexual misconduct, depending on who you ask) took place after what Ramon considered to be a flirtatious conversation between the two. The judge in the case admonished Ramon for distorting the...

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Two Santa Fe County's juvenile jail workers contend that they were terminated after complaining to a supervisor about having been sexually harassed while working. The county's legal department investigated and as a result one employee resigned while another worker was fired. An additional complaint that was made to the supervisor was that the employees who had been sexually harassing them were...

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Owners of a now defunct Burlingame restaurant must compensate their former female employees a total of $230,000 for sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced.First Watch Restaurant, part of a corporation that has moved it's only California location out of state, has been ordered to pay the money as part of a settlement. Additionally, the corporation must also...

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