An Employer's Role in a Healthier Employee Lifestyle
Employers can take active roles to encourage and provide healthier alternatives for their employees. Here’s a convincing article on the role of an employer in increasing the healthiness of its...
View ArticleParkinson's — Can it be work-related?
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports today of a Berea man alleging he developed work-related Parkinson’s Disease after being exposed to a common industrial solvent: “BEREA — When the University of...
View ArticlePneumoconiosis rate has doubled
According to politicalaffairs.net “the prevalence of black lung disease has doubled over the past five years.” The article, per NIOSH statistics, points to the increase in the number of hours miners...
View ArticleWorkers' Comp News in Review for April 2009
Here are links to a few articles and sites of interest to workers’ compensation and to past posts from Ouch! ♦From The Kentucky Department of Workers’ Claims: A new insurance coverage search feature...
View ArticleLawyers to be sentenced in August – Latest News – Kentucky.com
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View ArticleMax and Erma's Gets a Little Confused
The following post can also be viewed at the LexisNexis® Workers’ Compensation Law Blog In the recent Kentucky Court of Appeals decision of Max and Erma’s v. Lane, designated to be published, employer...
View ArticleWhen is nonwork-related treatment work-related?
The Associated Press recently reported on an Indiana workers’ compensation case, Boston’s Gourmet Pizza v. Childers, where an employer was ordered to pay for lap band surgery for an overweight...
View ArticleSchmidt v. South Central Bell: Back to the future
Schmidt v. South Central Bell, No. 2010-CA-000986-WC (Ky. App. 2011). The statutory amendments removing the medical expenses cap in place under KRS 342.020 as enacted in 1962 were remedial, rendering...
View ArticleKentucky physician suspended by KBML following overdose-related death of...
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (KBML) has issued an emergency order of suspension against Jessamine County physician, Paul V. Brooks, a physician who frequently testifies in Kentucky workers’...
View ArticleESI-related meningitis news round-up — UPDATED 10/24/12
Recent outbreaks of fungal meningitis tied to contaminated epidural steroid injections (ESI) have been at the top of medical news for the past several days. The outbreak is tied to contaminated...
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