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• Bagolie & Friedman Lecture to Lawyers on Workers' Compensation Practice

  Ricky Bagolie | December 14, 2006 11:34 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  New Jersey - December 2006 - Workers' Compensation Trial Lawyers Ricky Bagolie and Alan Friedman were invited to speak to a group of lawyers interested in advanced workers' comp trial tips. The unique program took place on December 2 at Pines Manor in Edison and was sponsored by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey (ATLA-NJ). It featured a panel of some of the most...

• Death Toll From Sago Mine Disaster Rises as 2 Workers Shoot Themselves

  Ricky Bagolie | December 13, 2006 10:21 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Deaths raise fears about emotional toll from disaster as workers forced to lie to investigators regarding their safety training. their testimony produced a broader probe of the Sago Mine management training pracitces according to The Charleston GazetteMcAteer said Sago would not be the first time that survivors of major mining accidents claimed their own lives. Most recently, a Pennsylvania...

• Will New Medicare Recovery Procedures Help Injured Workers?

  Ricky Bagolie | December 12, 2006 10:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is consolidating all of the functions and workloads related to Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) post-payment recoveries into one MSP recovery contract. The contract for the new national MSP Recovery Contractor (MSPRC) was implemented on October 2, 2006. The MSPRC will take over new MSP recovery claims and most existing claims. However, some...