Daily Archives: October 20, 2011 - 3 results

If you think you’ve been injured on the job, report it immediately to your employer. That’s the hard lesson learned recently by a Tennessee Caterpillar employee who was canned for failing to do so. Although she got compensation for her injury, the worker’s compensation law did not prohibit her firing.   Employee fired for failing to report workplace injury within 48 hours Company rules requiring early notification not prohibited by worker’s comp law Employees getting squeezed by worker’s comp trends …

Reported by Anne Gallagher - Lawyers.com With their final witness in Los Angeles Superior Court, the prosecution in Dr. Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial today continued to hammer away at the doctor’s purported criminally negligent behavior. Nationally known anesthesiologist Stephen Shafer testified today that singer Michael Jackson died because he stopped breathing and his doctor was not equipped to revive him. "The single most important thing in anesthesia is moving air and oxygen into the lungs” said Dr. Shafer of Columbia …

Everyone wants your money when you’re rich. French courts this week took steps to protect L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt after several people seemed to take advantage of the woman’s financial generosity combined with her declining mental health. The court named her daughter as conservator of the billionaire’s assets and named her grandson as guardian of Benttencourt’s personal care. In 2007 it was revealed that Bettencourt gave more than $1.38 billion in gifts to a friend. More recently Bettencourt’s lawyer—who was …