Quote of the day
"We now hold that the better-reasoned view is that the date of an employee's gradually occurring injury should be determined using the last-day-worked rule." Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder, regarding court's reversal of a trial court that denied an injured worker's claim based on the statute of limitaitons
Editorial: CHP Taking Taxpayers for a Ride
It is clear that the public has been ripped off in the California Highway Patrol’s “Chief’s Disease” scandal, but will anyone other than California taxpayers pay the price? Los Angeles Daily News
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Tennessee Supremes Reverse Trial Court in Limitations Case
Tennessee’s Supreme Court rules that a trial court erred in ruling that the statute of limitations expired on an individual’s workers’ compensation claim, holding that the rule that should be in effect considers the last day the individual worked, not the first day he complained of pain. By John O’Brien, Legal Newsline
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Jesse Jackson Blasts Ohio BWC for Fund Manager Sackings
The Rev. Jesse Jackson criticizes a November 2005 decision by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s Oversight Commission to terminate 69 investment fund managers as the agency retooled its scandal-ridden investment strategy. Jackson contends the move unfairly eliminated some successful minority-owned investment firms. By AP via Toledo Blade
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Texas State Rep Targets Youth Commission’s Claim Rate
The head of a key Texas House committee wants to investigate why about one in seven employees at the beleaguered Texas Youth Commission file workers’ compensation claims, more than any other state agency. “When you have $6 million going to pay workers’ comp claims, that’s $6 million that’s not going to treatment, that’s $6 million that’s not going to a new facility,” says Texas State Rep. Jerry Madden. By Elizabeth Pierson, Brownsville Herald
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Former Illinois Weapons Workers Speak at NIOSH Hearings
Former workers at a now-shuttered chemical plant discuss their radiation exposures with National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health representatives at hearings last week in Joliet, Illinois. After Barack Obama recently highlighted their plight, NIOSH retracted a recommendation that the government deny awarding workers “special exposure” status, which would make it easier for them to seek compensation for health problems related to radiation exposure. By Dennis Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
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FAA Worker Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
A 55-year-old New Jersey man who worked at the Federal Aviation Administration’s facility at Atlantic City International Airport is convicted of fraudulently receiving more than $100,000 in federal workers’ compensation benefits in 2005 and 2006 while he ran his own business. Bridgeton (N.J.) News
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Trinidad National Charged in New York City Comp Fraud Ring
A Queens, N.Y., Trinidad national is among 10 other people charged in a workers’ comp fraud scheme, for allegedly collecting workers’ compensation benefits for a purported 1994 injury while working at a flea market. Hardbeat News (New York City)
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New York Offers Workers’ Comp Benefits to Ground Zero Workers
Former New York Gov. George Pataki in August signed a bill that offers workers’ compensation benefits to anyone who performed rescue, recovery or cleanup work in Manhattan south of Canal St. in the year after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The deadline to file is mid-August. New York Daily News
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