When Are You Entitled to Worker’s Compensation?
Apparently in Australia, you are entitled to worker’s compensation benefits for injuries sustained while having sex on a business trip. An unidentified woman, an Australian bureaucrat, was injured while having sex on a business trip with a male friend in 2007. According to the news, during sex, “a glass light fitting was torn from its [...]
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Last week, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, a construction worker was killed and another injured when a new brownstone’s roof collapsed. According to witnesses, four workers were on top of the third-floor roof of the building when a roof beam gave way. The collapse sent the two victims all the way down to the [...]
Firefighters, police officers and other public-safety officials have incredibly difficult and dangerous jobs. To make these jobs even more dangerous, a firefighter or police officer will generally only enter a piece of property when there’s some type of emergency, like a kitchen fire. Not only can a firefighter be injured by the fire itself, but [...]
On-the-job injuries happen every single day. No matter how safe a job seems, there is always a chance an injury to an employee could occur. Realizing this, almost every state has workers’ compensation statutes. These statutes compensate employees for on-the-job injuries without regard to the employer’s fault or to the employee’s. Is Workers’ Compensation The [...]
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. Being caught in the middle of a legal matter can be stressful, frustrating and confusing, to say the least. If you don’t know what kind of lawyer you need, or how to find a good one, then you might procrastinate… or totally stick your head in the sand. That’s because lawsuits [...]
