Insurance For work

2008-04-08 Nightmare for many injured workers: The boss with no insurance

Each year, thousands of New Jersey workers get hurt on the job and discover a frightening and potentially expensive fact: Their employer ignored the law that requires businesses to have insurance for work-related injuries.

An uninsured worker who files a claim for benefits faces a complicated, onerous court system where one in 10 such claims drags for five years. Lawyers openly say they are reluctant to take cases involving the uninsured because they and their clients rarely get paid.

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2008-04-03 Labor Law: Methodological norms for the calculation of the insurance contribution for work accidents and professional illnesses

If the payment of the insurance contribution for work accidents and professional illnesses was not made by that time, the expenses for the insurance provisions and services provided for by law and performed by the insurer are recovered from the employer.

Government Decision for the approval of the Methodological Norms for the calculation of the insurance contribution for work accidents and professional illnesses (GD 144/2008).

I Labor Law: Methodological norms for the calculation of the insurance contribution for work accidents and professional illnesses

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2007-11-23 BWC cuts employers discount cap

Because of the big disparity between group and nongroup rates, businesses have seen their premiums jump an average of nearly 700 percent if they get booted from a group because of an injury. In addition to lowering the cap, the BWC board asked agency officials for a plan to make rate discounts more sound through rule changes regarding the composition of groups and to work toward adopting a nationally tested system for rating companies based on their history of injuries.

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2007-10-30 Federal Grand Jury Indicts La. Woman in Construction Bonds Case

Federal convictions in 1989 and 1991 barred Gwendolyn Joseph Moyo from working in insurance, but she allegedly sold construction bonds - a form of insurance - for work in Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, the new indictment stated.

Most of the construction bonds identified in the indictment were for work in Miami; nine were to two contractors at a Miami Beach development called Arte Park, and two for work at the Jenny Tower condos in Miami.

A federal grand jury in New Orleans brought a 15-count indictment against a Louisiana woman who sold construction bonds in several states, including Tennessee, after she was barred from the insurance business.

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2007-10-26 Federal grand jury indicts woman linked to state senator - NewsFlash

Federal convictions in 1989 and 1991 barred Gwendolyn Joseph Moyo from the insurance business, but she allegedly sold construction bonds - a form of insurance - for work in Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, an FBI agent testified at a hearing Monday.

The indictment did not list project locations. But most of the projects named in Thursdays indictment were in the Miami area. Nine were to two contractors at a Miami Beach development called Arte Park, and two for work at the Jenny Tower condos in Miami.

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2007-09-21 Colorado Media Matters - Boyles, Chieftain used falsehoods in describing or attacking Clinton health care plan

To which the headline linked did not report that Clintons proposal would require people to show proof of health insurance "for work. " Rather, it reported that, in an interview with the AP, Clinton said: "At this point, we dont have anything punitive that we have proposed" for people who do not purchase health insurance as required under her plan. According to the article, Clinton also said, "Were providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans. " The AP article also stated that Clinton "said she could envision a day when you have to show proof to your employer that youre insured as a part of the job interview -- like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination, but said such details would be worked

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2007-05-30 Chillicothe Gazette Chillicothe, OH

With more than usd. 20 billion is assets, the BWC, which was established in 1912, is the largest, exclusively state-funded, workers compensation system in the country, providing medical and compensation insurance for work-related injuries, diseases and deaths to two-thirds of Ohios work force. In 2006 alone, the bureau provided coverage to more than 288,000 employers, processed more than 188,000 claims and paid out more than usd. 1. 9 billion in benefits. However, BWC is one of two parts that make up Ohios workers compensation system. While the bureau is responsible for collecting insurance premiums, overseeing the compensation system and paying out claims, the IC, which is largely independent of the BWC, was created as a forum for employers and injured workers to resolve disputes over claims and other workers compensation issues.

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2007-03-22 Waynesville Daily Guide - News

I will give it all Ive got, because this is it, Campbell said. I feel there are a lot of things that I havent completed and I would like to at least see them on board, like getting in tax-base businesses, getting our pool back together or something equal to that, and having some kind of recreation activity for kids. Many of my neighbors and constituents asked me to run, plus I wanted to run and I thought I was going to retire this year from work.

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2007-02-19 2 deaths confirmed from mesothelioma : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

Bereaved family members of the two applied for government compensation under a new law offering relief for asbestos victims not covered by public insurance for work-related illness.

According to Kanagawa Rosai Shokugyobyo Center, a medical service organization for work-related diseases, Harada had lived in a house about 100 meters from the plant since the end of World War II. She died six months after developing mesothelioma.

Neither of the deceased, Sawako Harada, who died in 1989 aged 72, and Tadashi Takahashi, a former city government employee who died in 2003, aged 61, are believed to have had jobs related to the processing of asbestos.

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2006-11-29 Peoples Daily Online -- Yangtze cities vow to protect migrant workers

The agreement calls on the cities to ban discrimination against migrant workers and to strengthen the social welfare system for such workers by covering their medical services and creating insurance for work-related injuries. The agreement also obliged the cities to provide migrant workers with legal aid, mediate labour disputes and provide schooling for their children.

A survey of nine provinces by the State Administration of Work Safety found that migrant workers accounted for 80 per cent of Chinas 30 million-plus construction workers. They also make up 56 per cent of the work force in mining and at dangerous chemicals and fireworks factories.

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