Quote of the day
"If the [Florida] Legislature amends the workers' compensation statute to address Zika, we will certainly comply with any such provisions."
Jimmy Morales, Miami Beach city manager
Find the mosquito that bit you, Miami Beach tells cops who got Zika
After a second Miami Beach police officer contracted the Zika virus and the city denied workers’ compensation, the police union is calling for state legislation that covers first responders in such situations. The city’s response to the cops: Prove the infection happened while on duty and produce the virus-carrying mosquito that bit you. Bradenton Herald [with video] Go to the Full Story…
PEMCO partners with Zurich Insurance Group
Progressive Employer Management Co., a Manatee County, Florida-area professional employer organization, said it is partnering with Zurich Insurance Group for workers’ compensation insurance and that it has added two staffers to its risk-management department. All PEMCO’s current and new clients were moved to the new carrier Tuesday, the company said. Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Fla.)
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Connecticut: Retired chief seeking workers’ comp pursues police job
At the same time he is seeking workers’ compensation, retired Fairfield, Connecticut Fire Chief Richard Felner also wants to be hired as a special police officer. He filed the workers’ comp claim at the end of September, just a few days shy of the statutory deadline, the town filed a denial of that claim. Fairfield Citizen (Bridgeport, Conn.)
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Paris, Tennessee Chamber to host workers’ comp seminar
The Paris-Henry County Chamber of Commerce and the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development will present the 2016 Workers’ Compensation Update, “He’s Fallen and He Can’t Get Up,” on November 10. Jeff Francis, assistant administrator at the Tennessee Bureau of Workers Compensation, will give an hour-long presentation followed by lunch. Paris Post-Intelligencer
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Professors: Lawmakers must stop eroding workers’ compensation laws
In Texas, employers are able to avoid more of the costs of workplace injuries and fatalities than employers in most other states. As of 2014, Texas led the country in worker fatalities for seven of the previous 10 years, perhaps because the state has what one Texas journalist called “some of the weakest protections and hardest-to-obtain benefits in the country,” argue Thomas McGarity, professor of law at The University of Texas, and Sid Shapiro, professor at Wake Forest University School of Law. Austin American-Statesman
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