MD Legislature Meets re 'Harris Ruling'

Maryland employers are lobbying for a legislative remedy to a recent state Supreme Court ruling they say will open the floodgates to workers' compensation claims.A legislative joint committee on workers' compensation met Tuesday in Annapolis to hear testimony about the impact of the "Harris ruling".In June the Maryland Supreme Court ruled in favor of Vernell Harris, a 58-year old kitchen and laundry assistant injured her back at work in 1999 after she and a co-worker dragged a 45-pound box of detergent, which was contaminated with cockroaches, outside a high school's laundry area to prevent t...