InjuryBoard Jersey City Archives

• New Jersey Workers' Compensation Benefits May Be Available in Same Sex Relationships

  Ricky Bagolie | October 29, 2006 11:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  The New Jersey Supreme Court may have opened the door for providing workers' compensation benefits in same sex relationships. In Mark Lewis and Dennis Winslow, et al. v. Gwendolyn L. Harris, etc., et al. (A-68-05), the Court said"Disparate treatment of committed same-sex couples, moreover, directly disadvantages their children. We fail to see any legitimate governmental purpose in disallowing...

• Owens Corning To Emerge From Bankruptcy and Pay Asbestos Victims

  Ricky Bagolie | October 28, 2006 11:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Owens Corning announced that Judge Judith Fitzgerald of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved the company's Plan of Reorganization. The Bankruptcy Court's approval of the plan paves the way for Owens Corning to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of October 2006 while making arrangements to compensate the thousands of the victims exposed to it's asbestos...

• Family Seeks Justice in Fatal Turnpike Truck Wreck

  Ricky Bagolie | October 27, 2006 1:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  According to the Wichita Eagle, the four surviving children of a Wisconsin woman who was killed last year in an accident on the Kansas Turnpike have sued three trucking companies responsible for the crash.Relatives of Corrine Bartels, 64, of Platteville, Wis., sued the owner of the cab, the owner of the trailer it was hauling and the trucking company the driver was working for. Also sued was the...

• Panda Cub Bites Hand That Feeds It

  Ricky Bagolie | October 22, 2006 3:05 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In what could be one of my favorite stories to come out of China this year, a panda cub bit off part of the thumb of an American visitor who was feeding it at a reserve in southwest China. In a related story, a drunken Chinese tourist bit a panda at the Beijing Zoo after the animal attacked him when he jumped into the enclosure and tried to hug it. This goes to show that you must be on guard...

• Rapper Critical After Jersey City Car Crash

  Ricky Bagolie | October 19, 2006 11:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  According to the Jersey Journal, rapper Cassidy remains in critical condition at the Jersey City Medical Cente after a traffic crash caused a fractured skull and several fractured facial bones. The Philadelphia rapper reportedly was passing through Jersey City on his way to New York to continue work on his third album, slated for release later this year.

• Families Can Fight Improper Transfer From A Nursing Home

  Ricky Bagolie | October 18, 2006 4:17 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Do not let a nursing home threaten to transfer or discharge your loved one. Too often, a facility may respond to resident's difficulties or increasing need for care or repeated questions or complaints from family members by transferring or discharging the resident. The Nursing Home Reform Law of 1987 protects residents from involuntary transfer and discharge. It prohibits nursing homes from...

• Restraints Used in Nursing Homes Can Cause Harm

  Ricky Bagolie | October 13, 2006 5:09 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 states the resident has the right to be free from physical or chemical restraints imposed for purposes of discipline or convenience and not required to treat the resident's medical symptoms. This means that only a doctor can prescribe restraints after a careful assessment of the resident's condition. This helps ensure that residents are treated in such a...

• Thousands Flee Toxic Chemical Explosion In North Carolina

  Ricky Bagolie | October 06, 2006 1:44 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A massive chemical fire has forced thousands to flee their homes in Apex, North Carolina, just outside Raleigh. The explosion took place at the EQ Industrial Services plant late Thursday and the fires and explosions continue.According to the Houston Chronical:EQ Industrial Services handles a wide array of industrial waste, from paints to solvents, and houses chemicals such as chlorine,...

• Medicare Recovery Procedure and Workers' Comp

  Ricky Bagolie | October 06, 2006 2:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Medicare receipients have had to wait to receive their workers' comp benefits due to delays in the Medicare Secondary Payer investigation. Hopefully, that will change.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is consolidating all of the functions and workloads related to Medicare Secondary Payer post-payment recoveries into one recovery contract. The contract for the new national MSP...