Quote of the day
"It's an embarrassment. You work for a company for six years and give it your all."
Michelle Ollinger, who has filed suit against a fast-food restaurant for allegedly failing to accommodate her work-related disability and instead terminating her.
Oregon Insurance Division Has New Administrator
The Department of Consumer and Business Services names Scott Kipper, currently the deputy commissioner of the Office of Health Insurance for the Louisiana Department of Insurance, as new administrator of the Oregon Insurance Division. Portland Business Journal
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Firefighter Named to North Dakota Workers’ Comp Agency Board
North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven appoints a senior firefighter and recent workers’ comp claimant Ed Grossbauer as the newest member of the board of directors that oversees Workforce Safety and Insurance, the state workers’ comp agency. By AP via KXMC-TV (Minot, N.D.) [With Photo] Go to the Full Story…
Saskatchewan WCB’s Rate Cut Continues Trend
The Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board’s proposed average 8.2 percent rate reduction for 2008 continues a trend that has seen the average premium rate fall by 17.6 percent since 2005. If approved, 93 percent of the province’s 34,000 employers will see rates remain the same or reduced next year. By Bruce Johnstone, Regina Leader-Post
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Fast Food Worker Claims Job-Related Injury Led to Firing
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission hears the case of a fast-food worker who claims she experienced discrimination due to an injury and ongoing disability she suffered while delivering six large bins of sandwiches. By Barb Pacholik, Regina Leader-Post
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Mountain State Firm Ranked Top Workers’ Comp Shop
Charleston, W.V.’s Jackson Kelly’s workers’ compensation practice wins the ranking of the top workers’ compensation practice in the nation in Woodward and White’s “The Best Lawyers in America 2008.” West Virginia Record
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Opinion: Noe’s Appeal Delay Outrageous
Responsibility for the year-delay in getting the 5,000-page transcript of the trial of convicted Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation coin dealer Tom Noe typed falls directly on the administrative judge who seems not to grasp the importance of a speedy appeal. Noe is facing 18 years in state prison for stealing from a $50 million rare-coin fund he managed for BWC. Toledo Blade
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