Hawaii updates in category: Workplace Injuries

In addition to the well known claims about Wal-Mart shaving time from their employee's checks, the same management problems occured at Sam's Club stores across the country. The allegations describe the process as a series of tricks used by Wal-Mart and Sam's Club store managers to shave a few minutes here and a few minutes there from employee time cards. Often the amounts would not be noticed by...

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The scene repeats every day and every night. A reckless driver collides with your car and you have medical bills and maybe you can't work for a while. Who pays?First, the other driver must pay if you prove that they were at fault but that may take a long time and require a lawsuit to be filed. But your own auto insurance will also pay your medical bills and wage loss immediately without getting...

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How can you find out if a doctor has made serious errors in the past? This question should be primary in the mind of anyone comtemplating a serious surgery. Most doctors have clean records and provide excellent care, but a few doctors are repeatedly having problems. How do you find out?First of all you can ask the doctor. There is nothing wrong with asking the doctor questions. If the doctor...

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Last year there were 16 total civil jury trials in state circuit courts in Hawaii, 4 personal injury motor vehicle and 8 personal injury non motor vehicle. Only 12 Personal Injury cases went to trial by jury in the entire state in 2005. So why are the insurance companies and doctors complaining about medical malpractice cases and asking for restrictions on med mal victims rights? For 20 years I...

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Former Wal-Mart employees in Hawaii have joined with their mainland counterparts to hold the giant retailer accountable for altering employee time cards and cheating their workers out of millions of dollars over several years. After stone-walling employees's who first complained in the early 90's, Wal-Mart has admitted that the practice was wide-spread throughout the country. It was only after a...

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