Category: Workers’ Compensation

A federal judge in Philadelphia says $765 million isn't enough, especially for those who may have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease.

Resist cheap Super Bowl metaphors. No allusions to the Seahawks' inexplicable last-second play calling. Here's what you need to know about the latest twist in the deadly serious matter of NFL concussions.

Sen. Charles Schumer on Friday called on the Long Island Rail Road to begin testing its locomotive engineers for sleep disorders to prevent an accident if one fell asleep at the controls.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The compensation program for people with health problems related to the Sept. 11 terror attacks says it has approved payments of $804 million to 3,100 claimants.

Officials at the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund say they've paid $59 million as of Jan 2.

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Washington - As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for sick.

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There are 1.27 million lawyers in the United States, one for about every 300 Americans — about 400,000 more of them than there are doctors. Their work is rarely glamorous, and especially for those just starting out in the profession, it can be grinding and repetitive. Jason Luckasevic, hired out of law school in...

Matthew Onyshko went from college football player to educator to firefighter to, at age 32, terminally ill neurological patient.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, he and his wife alleged that concussions sustained on the gridiron led to his crippling ailment -- and that the NCAA should have tried to prevent the injuries.

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Eleven former employees of Long Beach Medical Center have filed a class-action lawsuit against the shuttered hospital for vacation time and other benefits they say are owed them.

The hospital has laid off about 670 of its 1,200 employees since the badly flooded hospital closed last October after superstorm Sandy.

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A  jury in one of New York’s most conservative counties recently returned a $130 million verdict in a medical-malpractice case, the second-largest in the state’s history. Lawyers for the losing hospital decried a “jury out of control” and called for more tort reform. Before the case went to trial, their offer of an $8...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Folks who worked, lived or volunteered in, near and around exposure zones and who suffered physical harm as a result of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, can still claim help.

But time is running out.

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To the Editor:

Re “Lawyers’ Business Model,” by Joe Nocera (column, July 30):

When corporations act irresponsibly by producing unsafe products, polluting our environment or swindling their employees and shareholders, often the only place for Americans to hold them accountable is in our courts. The civil justice system provides a key incentive...