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The topic of workers' compensation fraud is highly controversial, with claimant supporters arguing that fraud by claimants is rare—as low as one-third of one percent, [63] others focusing on the widely reported National Insurance Crime Bureau statistic that workers' compensation fraud accounts for $7.2 billion in unnecessary costs, [64] and ...
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of ...
Thomas Riley Watson (born March 11, 1947) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives. He resigned in 2010 in order to accept a position with the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board.
The work stoppage went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday after the International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents 45,000 workers, and the alliance representing ports failed to ...
U.S. ports from Maine to Texas are preparing for a potential shutdown in a week, when the union representing 45,000 dockworkers in that region has threatened to strike starting Oct. 1.
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on ...
She has also has been a member of the Maine Judicial Education Committee and the Maine Workers Compensation Commission. [3] [4] After 11 years on the District Court, governor Angus King appointed Gorman to the Maine Superior Court. On October 1, 2007, governor John Baldacci appointed her to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. [5]
The Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA), is a United States federal law, enacted on September 7, 1916. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sponsored by Sen. John W. Kern (D) of Indiana and Rep. Daniel J. McGillicuddy (D) of Maine, it established compensation to federal civil service employees for wages lost due to job-related injuries.