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Workplace fatalities are terrible, lingering tragedies that generally dont teach anything new about OHS failures. I couldnt find anything new in the frightening detail in the article below dated 14th December 2010 or in scores of Google searches of industrialoccupational fatalities though disease fatality epidemiology can be informative. If all workplace fatalities in Australia were [...]

The seventh annual edition of Seyfarth Shaw’s Workplace Class Action Litigation Report reveals an overall boost in employment-related class action litigation over the past year. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

New York Daily News Sara Ziff says models need legal protections, workplace rights, access to …New York Daily NewsModel Sara Ziff shed some stark light on the modeling industry with her documentary film "Picture Me" – but now she wants to do more. …and more » View full post on legal – Google News

12092010 WPB, FL, USA Personal Injury Lawyers News Nicole Howley San Joaquin Valley, CAA bizarre accident at Grimmway Farms landed one worker in the hospital with serous injuries. The workplace accident occurred around 10:30 Wednesday morning, at a processing plant near Lamont, as reported by KGET. The 53-year-old worker was reportedly operating a forklift, … [...]

Workplace incidents and injuries often occur as a result of inadequate resourcing in staff and time but few OHS consultants are comfortable recommending to clients that additional staff are required or that shifts should be reconfigured or, possibly, that a certain business activity or the business itself should be cancelled. Yet identifying the “root cause” [...]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com11242010 WPB, FL, USA Personal Injury Lawyers News Nicole Howley San Diego, CAAn industrial accident at the main shipyard of General Dynamics NASSCO left one worker with injuries on Monday, November 22, 2010. The accident took place around 2:30 p.m., on Harbor Drive at 28th Street, as reported by Sign On … View [...]

New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com11222010 Chicago, IL, USA Cooney Conway Mesothelioma lawyers: Cooney Conway It is no secret that asbestos exposure poses grave health risks. That was scientifically shown, and accepted, decades ago. And the lawsuits broughtand often wonby mesothelioma lawyers have proven the point time and time again. But a more surprising … View full post [...]

Arizona medical-marijuana law likely to test workplace regulationsKPNX-121, 2010 12:00 AM Zero tolerance of drug use is the workplace norm in Arizona, but the medical-marijuana law that takes effect next year will cloud what had …and more » View full post on law – Google News

Plumber Jean Parks, with her lawyer Darci Burrell, says her complaints about discrimination led the Port of Oakland to retaliate by suggesting she could become violent at work. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

HARTFORD, Conn. – The Connecticut Supreme Court on Nov. 9 reversed an Appellate Court decision involving a more than $500,000 award to a man injured on the job, concluding that the appeals court improperly decided the case based on an instructional impropriety claim, which had been abandoned by the defendant (John Sequenzia v. Guerrieri Masonry [...]