Mexican Worker Wins Benefits For Specific Loss of Leg

A Mexican citizen is entitled to workers' compensation benefits after breaking his leg while working in Michigan, because he was legally working in the United States and the injury precludes him from performing jobs with equal wages, an appellate court ruled.In the published decision of Romero v. Burt Moeke Hardwoods Inc., No. 271122, 7/29/08, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed a decision granting workers' compensation benefits to Pablo Gutierrez Romero. Romero was recruited by Otis Fahl, an employee of Burt Moeke Hardwoods Inc., to work as a millwright as the employer planned to o...