Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday
(The Associated Press) North Carolina's Employment Security Commission is introducing a way for the newly unemployed to file a compensation claim by telephone. The agency said Monday it will start the system for unemployed workers to file their initial claim for benefits on Wednesday. Until then, unemployed workers could either visit an ESC office or file claims online...
EmailWire.Com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 25, 2008 ) New York, NY - Lawyer Central is pleased to announce the release of its Workers' Compensation Resource Center, a comprehensive source of information about the legal aspects of workers' compensation. Workers' compensation is a system of benefits for employees...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Vienna - Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger plans to take the sport's ruling body FIS, Norwegian organizers and an Oslo clinic to court as he seeks compensation over a crash at a World Cup race in Kvitfjell in which he lost his lower leg. The Austrian...
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
DISHONEST Queenslanders are claiming their homes have been damaged in the recent devastating storms and pocketing fat cheques at taxpayers' expense.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Oops! The state unit that handles compensation claims for injured workers has concluded that Illinois short-changed at least some beneficiaries and their heirs, and that it did so for as long as a stunning 30 years. Neither the Workers' Compensation Commission nor anyone else in state government is yet saying how much the snafu might cost Illinois employers, who will have to make...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... the companies misled their investors. If they did the directors can face imprisonment, fines or compensation claims.We are working with the Registrar of Companies, who has already laid criminal charges in three cases and banned some directors, and the commission's investigations of other cases are well advanced.Many investors are faced with considering proposals by finance companies...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
It had been suggested that Blades chairman Kevin McCabe would accept a compromise deal of around £20m from the cash-strapped Hammers in the hope of speeding up the legal process.Now it has emerged that the Championship club have already submitted their compensation claim and are holding out for more than £30m.The Blades won a temporary injunction at the High Court last week stopping the...
icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for longer than 15 minutes.The Royal British Legion has helped 1,195 soldiers with hearing compensation claims against the Ministry of Defence in the past three years.The MoD say compensation ranged from £5,250 for a blast injury with minimal hearing loss to £46,000 for total deafness. These figures are due to increase to £5,775 and £92,000 respectively.Kevin Thomas, a registered...
PointOfLaw Forum (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The highest-earning solicitors in Britain? Those would be the plaintiffs' lawyers who handle miners' health compensation claims. The Times wonders whether there might seem anything wrong with this picture....
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... against Mr Stagg was thrown out at the Old Bailey two years later, but despite his acquittal he claimed the stigma made him unemployable and a 'national hate figure' for years afterwards. At the trial, the judge lambasted the Met's 'honeytrap' operation in which an undercover woman detective encouraged Mr Stagg to confess to the killing by instigating an exchange about his violent sexual...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... under the old rules? Reports the Daily Mail : The health service is set to face a string of compensation claims from cancer patients after its U-turn on top-up payments. It comes after yesterday’s landmark announcement that patients who buy their own life-extending medication will no longer lose their free NHS care. Previously those who paid for drugs not available on the NHS were...
Time (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... evening at the front entrance is a sheaf of documents: the latest rulings from a local court on compensation claims filed by many of He Jun's 4,000 workers, Wei included. "They process a few of them a day, so I come back every other day to check and see if my case is on the list," Wei says. He has no luck again. "I'll just wait some more," he says. "I have nothing else to do at this...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
DISHONEST Queenslanders are claiming their homes have been damaged in storms and pocketing fat cheques at taxpayers' expense.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
DISHONEST Queenslanders are claiming their homes have been damaged in storms and pocketing fat cheques at taxpayers' expense.
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... sweeping things under the carpet in a vain attempt to avoid responsibility (and possible resultant compensation claims), I can't see this one being any different.Posted by: DW of Moorooka 3:31pm today Best of wishes to everyone. Well now, seems as though the North side of Brissy is really having a time of it. Despite the storms and smells accosting our senses though, you have to know...
