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• Son Continues to Collect Workers Compensation Benefits Intended For Mother After She Dies

  Matthew Bergmann | August 30, 2006 3:02 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A New Jersey man has been charged with third degree theft after he continued to recieve more than $14,000 in workers compensation benefits that were intended for his mother, after she died in December 2000. Officals were alerted by investigators working for the compensation insurance carrier last year that James G.Spaziai, 63, may still be collecting benefits for his mother, Philomena, rather...

• Contractor To Serve 3 Years In Prison For Workers Compensation Fraud

  Matthew Bergmann | August 27, 2006 2:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A judge in San Diego, California has ordered the owner of a local construction company to pay nearly $500,000 in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund and serve three years in prison for workers compensation fraud. David Haskit 44, a licensed general contractor and owner of Haskit Construction, Inc., was sentenced by San Diego Superior Court Judge, Timothy Walsh, to three years in...

• Injured Worker in New York Offered $25 Million Settlement

  Matthew Bergmann | August 24, 2006 1:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Seen as one of the largest insurance settlements ever in the history of New York, $25 million is being offered to a man for work injuries suffered due in a lliquid nitrogen accident. The settlement was granted to Michael C. Ottaviano, 50, of Lancaster, New York, after being approved in the State Supreme Court. Ottaviano's injuiries on December 19th, 1998, when liquid nitrogen tanks...

• New Warning on Guidant Heart Defibrillators

  Matthew Bergmann | August 05, 2006 2:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The Boston Scientific Co. has issued a warning to doctors that another 996 defibrillators made by its Guidant unit may be defecitve, placing receiptents of the deivice at high risk for sudden cardiac death.No deaths or injuries have been linked to the battery failures, the Natick, Mass.-based company said Monday. The defect, a faulty low-voltage capacitor, was confirmed in 30 defibrillators...