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NY - Corrections Officer Accused of Working as a Bouncer While on Benefits

09/21/2018 | 92 | 0 | 5 min read

A New York corrections officer has been charged with grand larceny and insurance fraud after investigators discovered that he was working as a bouncer in an Albany-area bar while collecting workers’ compensation benefits, the New York Inspector General’s Office said. Benjamin Essenter, 44, of Clifton Park, was arrested and arraigned in the Town of Colonie Justice Court, according to a press release. Essenter claimed he was injured while working as a corrections officer at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in the summer of 2016. He submitted medical examination reports stating... Read More

CA - Columnist: WCAB Move Fits Pattern of Rewarding Friends With Patronage

09/21/2018 | 305 | 0 | 3 min read

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision to appoint a high school classmate to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board fits with a pattern of rewarding friends with political appointments since the start of his third term in 2011, according to columnist Dan Walters. Juan Pedro Gaffney Walters, a former columnist for the Sacramento Bee who joined the nonprofit CALmatters as a commentary writer in 2017, said that shortly after Brown took office in 2011, he rescinded an appointment his predecessor made to the state community college Board of Governors. Brown’s office exp... Read More

RI - Officials Aren't Itching to Close Courthouse Over Bedbug Sightings

09/21/2018 | 55 | 0

Despite calls from labor unions to shut down the courthouse because of bedbugs, court administrators have said it's not such a biting concern and plan to keep the building operating. Union officials and courthouse regulars have complained for weeks about the itch-causing insects on several floors of the Garrahy Judicial Complex in Providence and don't feel that the issue is being taken seriously, according to local TV news. "It's a serious situation, and I don't know that they're taking it to the level I think it should be taken," said Michael Dow... Read More

FL - FCBI Relocates Headquarters to Orlando

09/21/2018 | 183 | 0 | 2 min read

Florida Citrus, Business & Industries Fund announced Thursday that it has moved its corporate headquarters from Alachua, Florida, to Orlando. FCBI, a group self-insurance fund, provides workers’ compensation insurance to more than 7,000 policyholders in Florida. The fund said its relocation has created more than two dozen jobs and it remains committed to growing its workforce in the coming years. The fund earlier this year moved all of its marketing and underwriting functions in-house. When the fund began its operations in in 1977 it focused entirely on providing covera... Read More

CA - Waste Hauler Fined $46K After Worker Fatality

09/21/2018 | 192 | 0 | 3 min read

After Bay Area garbage hauler was run over by his own truck, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited his employer for failing to ensure that the truck’s safety restraint was in good working order, and for failing to ensure that that it wasn’t used by workers driving from the right side of the truck. Cal/OSHA said a GreenWaste Recovery worker was run over while collecting recyclables in San Jose on March 2. He was making a turn while operating the truck from the right hand side when he fell out of the vehicle. Cal/OSHA’s inspection determined that the... Read More

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