Workers' Compensation Check Led to Livery Firm's Dismissal

A livery company that allowed its workers’ compensation insurance to lapse has lost its court battle to continue delivering human remains to the medical examiner's office, according to the Providence Journal newspaper.Joseph Pilosa’s company, JPL Livery Services, transported remains for the state from 1998 through 2007. State officials terminated the contract after discovering that some JPL employees had extensive criminal backgrounds.After the company sued the state, a Superior Court judge and the state Supreme Court agreed that state officials had shown credible evidence that...