I normally do not post anything that is not rather directly related to workers’ compensation. I think, however, that this is an important change in policy and is good news for people who are injured, but it is also good news for some of the people in the gig economy. As I am sure
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In our practice, we are fortunate to represent a number of healthcare employees. Nursing and other healthcare occupations can be very dangerous. I represented a number of people who work for the Oregon State psychiatric hospitals, and they routinely get attacked by their patients.There are other safety hazards that nurses, CNAs, and so forth have
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While it is always uncertain what legislation can get passed (particularly when you have shared control with the Democrats in control of the house and the Republicans in control of the Senate), it is good to see that there is now some push being made to restore some worker rights vis a vis their employers.
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ON THE U.S. LABOR DEPARTMENT’S FALL REGULATORY AGENDA Following is a statement from Christine Owens, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project: Posted October 17, 2018 “In the Fall Regulatory Agenda released by the U.S. Department of Labor today, the Trump administration continues its relentless march toward repealing safeguards designed to protect the
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Oregon’s workers compensation system is in many respects far too complex. If you are familiar, at all, with Rube Goldberg’s creations (and one of those would be the mouse trap game that many of us played while growing up), then you will understand when I say that this workers compensation system is a Rube
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One of the success stories for trial lawyers was getting acknowledgment of workers having two jobs and getting time loss paid based on both wages. This means that if you are injured doing a very low wage job, but you are unable to do the higher paying job as well you can get paid
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We do not have jury trials or pain and suffering damages in our workers compensation system. Some people who have workers compensation claims also have third party cases (i.e. cases against third parties that can be litigated in Circuit Court). Our Supreme Court recently reversed an old case and reinstated caps on damages. This takes
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Regardless of how you plan to vote in the Presidential election this is an excellent letter to the Secretary of Labor from Congress people and Senators including Patty Murray from Washington, Ron Wyden from Oregon and Bernie Sanders from Vermont. It is a good read, and while it is difficult to get anything done in
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The last 25 years have been particularly brutal on both injured workers and on the lawyers who represent them. In 1990, the legislature met in special session and enacted some very significant changes in the law. At that time, the law was relatively simple to understand, and reasonable lucrative for the attorneys representing injured workers.
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Each state determines its own workers’ compensation benefits, which means workers in neighboring states can end up with dramatically different compensation for identical injuries. by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR March 5, 2015 AT THE TIME OF THEIR ACCIDENTS, Jeremy Lewis was 27, Josh Potter 25. The men lived within 75 miles of
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