Posts tagged Workers' Compensation

• Wake County Employee Dies in Workplace Accident

  Gary Shipman | February 28, 2008 5:12 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  An employee of Wake County died in a workplace accident when a pneumatic jack slipped and the ambulance that the victim was working on fell and fatally crused him.The jack, manufactured by Grey, slipped, according to an investigative report, and the ambulance upon which David Lee Champion was working on (unsupported by jack stands) fell. The North Carolina Department of Labor's Occupational...

• Employment Discrimination - MLK had a dream and a mission

  Jean Martin | January 21, 2008 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.As we reflect on all that Martin Luther King, Jr. was able to accomplish in his life cut too short, one can only wonder what he could have achieved for workers' rights and what he could have done to end the on-going discrimination in the workplace. Everyone is quite familiar with his accomplishments in stomping out racial...

• California Workers Allowed to Bring Class Action

  Gary Shipman | August 31, 2007 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, August 30, that workers in California may bring a class action against their employers for alleged labor code violations, notwithstanding the fact that the workers had signed agreements requiring those disputes to be submitted to arbitration.In the 4-3 ruling, the Justices rules that agreements prohibiting the litigation of cases by employees in a...

• Who/What is Your Personal Injury Attorney?

  Gary Shipman | June 12, 2007 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  You Deserve the Best" "We'll Fight for You"As consumers, we are constantly hearing/seeing television and radio ads from law firms, seeking to have those injured in a car accident, on the job, as the result of medical negligence, or in a nursing home, call their offices. Those solicitations use persuasive, but often deceptive, "come ons" in an attempt to convince you to make that call. There...

• Who/What is your Personal Injury Attorney?

  Gary Shipman | June 12, 2007 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  "You Deserve the Best" "We'll Fight for You"As consumers, we are constantly hearing/seeing television and radio ads from law firms, seeking to have those injured in a car accident, on the job, as the result of medical negligence, or in a nursing home, call their offices. Those solicitations use persuasive, but often deceptive, "come ons" in an attempt to convince you to make that call. There...

• AIG Sued by Workers' Compensation Group

  Christina Cole | June 02, 2007 3:04 AM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  American International Group Inc. may have to pay out more than the $317 million it has set aside to settle claims they shortchanged state workers' compensation programs.Filed Thursday, in U.S. District Court by the National Workers Compensation Reinsurance Pool, the lawsuit estimates the world's largest workers' comp insurer may owe over $1 billion. AIG, in a separate lawsuit filed Thursday,...