Posts tagged worksite injuries

• Topeka Requires Contractors To Have Insurance

  James B. Biggs | March 05, 2006 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The city has minimized the risk to Topekans building or remodeling homes of being preyed upon by fly-by-night or fraudulent contractors.Since December 2004, the city of Topeka has required general contractors to have a minimum of $300,000 in liability insurance, a general contractor certification and workers compensation insurance, if they have employees."Before December of 2004, anyone walking...

• Kansas Supreme Court Reverses Rule for Injured Worker

  Matthew Bergmann | February 09, 2007 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed a prior appellate decision and found a worker's claim of injury vaild under the Kansas Workers Compensation Act.In Rinke v. Bank of America, a bank employee left work at the end of her shift and walked to her car which was parked in a garage adjacent to the bank. She then slipped and fell on a patch of ice and sand in front of her car and was injured. At...

• Kansas Injured Workers Required To Make Good Faith Effort In Finding Jobs

  James B. Biggs | March 15, 2006 9:18 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The Kansas Workers Compensation Appeals Board has changed the way injured workers, seeking a work disabilty, will look for jobs. Essentially, the Appeals Board has placed a burden on the injured worker to show that a good faith effort has been made to find employment within their given work restrictions. In the case of Thomas v. Dollar General Corp., W.C.A.B. 1,008,265 (February 2005), the...

• Hot Debate Over Work Comp Benefits In Kansas

  James B. Biggs | February 28, 2006 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsTopeka, KS Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Sen. Karin Brownlee and Doug Allen sharply differed Wednesday on merits of proposed changes to the Kansas workers' compensation law.Brownlee, R-Olathe, supports a bill sponsored by the Kansas Chamber of Commerce that relieves companies of part of their financial obligation to employees hurt at work. Allen, of Spring Hill, takes a view that compensation for Kansans in job-related accidents --...