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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
It is not "How," It is "When"
The Judge mentioned the advent of driverless technology. Ironically, it is national Distracted Driving Awareness Month. If you are driving about the State of New York with a phone in your hand you'll most likely get a ticket for sure this week. The driverless car is already under development with a target for production by major corporations such as Apple by the year 2020. In California Google already has test vehicles on the road.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
NJ Gov Murphy Announces Legislation to Overhaul New Jersey’s Anti-Workplace Harassment Laws for Public and Private Employers
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
NJ Garden State Plaza mall gunman investigation ongoing
Police said a “single male” entered Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus at 9:19 p.m. and fired several shots.
Some customers and mall employees were evacuated as police and SWAT teams descended on the area.
A gunman, dressed head-to-toe in black and wearing a black helmet, fired shots in New Jersey's Westfield Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus just before closing time Monday night, witnesses and authorities said.
None of the witness reported seeing anyone hit by the gunfire, and Jim Tedesco, the deputy coordinator of the Bergen County Office of Emergency Management, confirmed late Monday night that no injuries had been reported.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene that unfolded as the sound of gunshots rang out inside the mall just before it was due to close at 9:30 p.m. Authorities ordered shoppers and employees to huddle behind locked doors in the mall’s stores. Many were escorted to safety, but many more — perhaps thousands — remained inside the mall under lockdown orders after midnight, authorities said.
The incident drew hundreds of police officers from across...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
President Obama Proclaims April 28th Workers Memorial Day
Presidential Proclamation -- Workers Memorial Day
Monday, August 18, 2014
State Sen. Leland Yee allegedly solicited bribes for NFL Workers’ Compensation Law
Brett Gowen |
As part of the ongoing saga of State Senator Leland Yee, a new charge for racketeering was given by a federal grand jury. As part of the indictment, Sen. Yee allegedly solicited $60,000 for Yee’s vote and another senator’s vote on a bill dealing with limiting workers’ compensation benefits for NFL players. According to the indictment, Sen. Yee believed the money would be paid by a NFL team owner according to an LA Times article.
Attorney, Melissa Brown at Fraulob Brown Gowen & Snapp, has a connection to the NFL and their treatment of injured players. Ms. Brown was retained as an expert witness for the NFL Players’ Association at an arbitration hearing involving a workers’ compensation law dispute with NFL owners. The arbitration, and the flurry of lawsuits involving NFL injuries, is part of the growing recognition of the impact the game has on the long-term health of the players.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017
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Friday, October 5, 2012
October Is National Disability Awareness Month
Presidential Proclamation -- National Disability Employment Awareness Month, 2012
and skills that individuals with disabilities bring to our workplaces and communities and to promote the right to equal employment opportunity for all people.
More About Disabilities
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Friday, May 27, 2016
Memorial Day - 2016
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Presidential Proclamation -- Workers Memorial Day
A PROCLAMATION
For over 3 decades the Law Offices of Jon L. Gelman 1.973.696.7900 jon@gelmans.com have been representing injured workers and their families who have suffered occupational accidents and illnesses.
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Monday, February 14, 2022
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Friday, August 9, 2013
Plaintiffs’ expert in lead paint trial says industry took responsibility for public health
Today's post was shared by Legal Newsline and comes from legalnewsline.com
Markowitz
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Manufacturers of lead based pigments and paints were aware of the dangers lead exposure posed nearly 100 years ago, but promoted them anyway, according to testimony from the latest expert witness in a public lawsuit against current owners of former lead paint and pigment manufacturing companies.
Dr. Gerald Markowitz, a historian and professor at City University of New York, blamed a deregulation principle that allowed paint companies to continue mixing lead in paint for generations, despite known and documented health hazards within the paint industry.
“There was a firm belief in the U.S. up until very recently that regulation of toxic substances, except in food, should not be regulated,” Markowitz said. “It was a firm belief within (the) industry that they had responsibility rather than government to protect the workforce and protect the public.”
Markowitz testified at trial Wednesday in a case brought by 10 cities and counties in California, including Los Angeles County and the cities of San Diego and San Francisco, against companies and parent companies of one-time lead-based paint makers. The plaintiffs want the companies to pay for the cost of eliminating lead paint from homes in their jurisdictions. Defendants include The Sherwin-Williams Company, ConAgra Grocery Products, DuPont and Atlantic Richfield Company.
The People of California v. Atlantic Richfield Company et al is being heard...
Monday, November 4, 2013
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
A Framework for Reducing Suffering in Health Care
Today's post was shared by NEJM and comes from blogs.hbr.org
Patients suffer — predictably and so obviously that they bring clichés to life. They wince with pain. They shudder with fear. They lose sleep because of anxiety and confusion. And, as they suffer, they turn to medicine for help. But medicine, increasingly, has not provided them with relief. A century ago, little could be done to alter the course of disease, but clinicians understood suffering and their role in addressing it. They acknowledged it, they gave drugs to relieve pain, and they took the time to bear witness to what their patients were enduring. But in recent decades, spectacular medical progress has made many diseases treatable, and some even curable. Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. Much good has resulted from that aggressiveness and the narrowed focus of clinicians — but patients’ suffering has been pushed from center stage into the background. Suffering still goes on, of course, but it is often overlooked. Perhaps it is overlooked because clinicians are so busy focusing on the technical details of care, or perhaps it is due to their uncertainty about how to respond. In fact, the profession so systematically avoids acknowledging suffering that medical journals don’t even use the term to describe a patient’s experience. Compliance rates may be said to “suffer,” but not patients. (See Thomas H. Lee’s essay... |