NC businesses see workers' comp coverage savings

North Carolina businesses will pay nearly 10 percent less next year for workers' compensation insurance under an agreement between the insurance industry and state regulators.

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Ohio workers' comp agency lowers discount

The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation has lowered the discount available to employers who participate in a group-rating system.

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According to newspaper accounts and Haskett's lawyer, Philip M. Wilson, Haskett was working at the McDonald's at 10201 Rodney Parham Road last August when he interceded to stop a man who was beating a woman in the restaurant.

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Individuals like Mr. Abney are caught between the conflicting imperatives of science and law — and there is a huge gap between what researchers are discovering about environmental contaminants and what they can prove about their impact on disease.

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Two Dallas city employees were hospitalized Thursday after a 100-ton crane toppled onto a pump station just north of the Trinity River in West Dallas. It was the third crane accident in the Dallas area within the past few months.

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The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has released a white paper calling for stronger criminal penalties for those violating OSHA regulations.

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With triple-digit heat consuming much of California this week, Cal/OSHA investigators are targeting Fresno, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Napa, Sonoma, Yolo, Santa Clara counties for heat illness prevention inspections of outdoor workplaces.

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OSHA has inspected the Finkl forging plant 19 times since 1972 with 12 of those inspections resulting in citations for safety violations. The company has had two fatalities during that time.

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OSHA inspectors cited Citation Corp.

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Investigators on Monday morning released the name of a man killed in a construction accident at First Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa.

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The move came as the state Workers' Compensation Board fined his personal corporation $25,000 for failing to pay workers'-comp premiums from June 2002 to March 2005. Franken said he didn't know about the fine until a Minnesota-based Web site reported it last week.

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In conventional medicine, breast implants come in pairs: in most circumstances, you install (or replace) both at the same time. There is a compelling aesthetic symmetry in the process.

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The report featured Lynx driver Mary Robels, who was involved in a crash in May 2005.

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The Overwhelming Burden of the Overweight

I am 53 years old, 5'10" tall and I weigh 190 pounds. According to the Body Mass Index (BMI) I am overweight. I even look fat and have developed a paunch. A person is considered overweight when their BMI is over 25. Mine is 27.3. A BMI of 30 is obese.

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Workers Compensation, Will it save you?

So you work for a large corporation, and you think your safe if you get hurt on the job? Do you know it has nothing to do with the corporation you work for, rather their insurance company.

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Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani thinks his "plan for up to $15,000 in tax breaks to help families pay for coverage outside employer-based plans is the antidote." I totally disagree.

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A Harvard Square restaurant employee tied a tourniquet around his bloody penis and continued working for several hours after armed robbers stabbed him, police said last week. But management at Z Square restaurant suspect the worker lied about the incident and is now trying t …

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Two class-action lawsuits say that the Swift meatpacking company wrongly terminated injured workers to save on worker's compensation costs and systematically replaced workers with illegal Guatemalan immigrants to depress wages.

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Why medical opinions get preferred in workers compensation tribunals.

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Injured Nevada workers could face required drug tests to prevail in insurance disputes, under an industry-backed proposal debated Tuesday by state legislators.

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James Hardie has now settled a deal to compensate people dying after exposure to asbestos, and as we reported yesterday, the corporate watchdog is taking court action against those behind its asbestos funding debacle.

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I never took a coffee break at work . . . just

Tim worked in an enclosed, air-flow restricted 30' x 10' x 30' maskant room where he performed flocoat operations on metal airplane parts.

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While trying to protect her hands they screwed up her stomach, lungs, ears, nose, throat ... AND HER LIFE.

In her wildest dreams Libby never thought that wearing a simple pair of protective rubber latex gloves would cause her so much grief.

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