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Supreme Court Ruled State Can’t Be Sued Under FMLA For Refusing Employee Recovery Time

April 11, 2013 by Lance M. Sears

CBS Washington reports that the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote that states cannot be sued for refusing to give employees time off to recover from an illness. The Court’s decision will not let Daniel Coleman sue the Maryland State Court of Appeals for damages for firing him after he requested sick leave. He “blamed […]

Filed Under: Blog Post, Employee Law, Legal, Workers' Compensation

Wheelchair-accessible van awarded to Colorado Springs injured worker

August 31, 2012 by Lance M. Sears

Sears & Associates P.C. has obtained an order from Colorado workers’ compensation for a wheelchair conversion van for an injured client. In the history of Colorado Workers’ Compensation Law, less than five workers have ever been reported to be awarded a wheelchair accessible van as a result of debilitating work injuries which have left them […]

Filed Under: Blog Post, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation

USA Today reports military insurer denies coverage of new brain injury treatment

January 5, 2011 by Lance M. Sears

USA Today reports that “military health officials are refusing to pay for a new treatment for traumatic brain treatment despite widspread support for the therapy among doctors and lawmakers.” The treatment in question is cognitive rehabilitative therapy, or CRT.  Tricare Management Agency, a component of the military health system, made a statement to The Military Times saying, […]

Filed Under: Blog Post, Legal, Medicine, Military, Workers' Compensation

Oscar Mayer Employees File Suit For Compensation

November 17, 2010 by Lance M. Sears

Four employees of the Oscar Mayer packaging plant in Davenport, Iowa are filing a class action lawsuit against their employers, claiming that they are not being paid during the time that they are putting on the safety gear required to perform their jobs, having to put them on in a locker room before swiping their […]

Filed Under: Blog Post, Employee Law, Workers' Compensation

Janitors Try to Clean Up Wal-Mart

October 11, 2010 by Lance M. Sears

In June 2010, a federal judge declined to grant final class certification to a suit brought against Wal-Mart by former janitorial staff, charging the retail giant over their labor practices. “On June 25th, Chief US District Judge Garrett Brown…found that because the plaintiffs worked for a variety of Wal-Mart contractors around the county, not for […]

Filed Under: Blog Post, Employee Law, Workers' Compensation

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

May 19, 2010 by Lance M. Sears

On January 30, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Democrats’ quick response to a (Bush) Supreme Court decision which had taken away almost all avenues for workers to recover for pay discrimination.  In 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in a 5-4 decision) that Lilly Ledbetter “had failed to file a discrimination suit against the Goodyear […]

Filed Under: Blog Post, Employee Law, Legal, Workers' Compensation

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