Insurance

You may have to pay for workers’ old ailments

10/01/2000

During her 30-year career as a dental hygienist, Kathleen Flor worked for many dentists. In 1990, a test for hepatitis C came back negative, even though she was treated …

Draw clear lines of liability when leasing your employees

09/01/2000

When Interwest Insulation needed help with its employee paperwork and complying with state laws, it signed an employee leasing agreement with …

Radical change to worker’s schedule lets him win unemployment benefits

09/01/2000

Philip Mauro was hired for a carpenter/foreman job with the understanding that his work had to coincide with his daughter’s day care hours, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and that …

Employers sue over tapping unemployment fund for family leave

08/01/2000

This month a U.S. Labor Department regulation is set to take effect allowing states to use unemployment insurance to pay employees who take leave for birth or adoption. But it faces …

Employee doesn’t need to show actual injury to earn workers’ comp

07/01/2000

When Patsy Evenson, a K-Mart manager, came to the aid of a wheelchair-bound man, she got his blood and feces on her hands. He had HIV, and she had sores on …

Workers’ comp benefits restrict some FMLA options

07/01/2000

Q. Can the time spent on workers’ comp leave be counted against family and medical leave? —D.H., Arizona

Watch for warning signs of workers’ comp fraud

06/01/2000

Q. We’ve had a number of suspicious injuries at work this year. We don’t want to jump to conclusions, but how can we determine if these injuries are part of a workers’ comp insurance fraud scheme? —K.H., Mississippi

At-home workers are entitled to workers’ comp

05/01/2000

At-home workers are entitled to workers’ comp – even if they’re injured during activities only marginally related to their job. A sales rep for an auto supply company was seriously injured after he slipped while spreading salt on his …

Keep your nose out of employees’ off-duty activities

04/01/2000

The more you consider limiting the actions of workers while they’re off the clock, the closer you step toward a lawsuit. More than half the states have laws protecting …

Not everyone counts for COBRA threshold