Keefe: Dominicks/Safeway Has Runaway Jury Award

In the second of three recent legal developments involving the intricate rights for claimants with both workers' compensation and civil claims, we are sad to report this somewhat shocking decision against a major U.S. employer. We also feel Dominicks Finer Foods had a triad of poor risk management, inept human resources and overpriced defense counsel for years. It was our opinion their litigated claims would drag on forever. In this situation, we feel they made a staggeringly poor human resources, legal or claims decision that clearly came back to bite them. Last week, we learned a r...