Workers' Compensation

Kirk Hartley

Aug 31, 20161 min

Can There Be “Take Home” Type Claims Where Both Family Members Worked for the Same Emplo

Fact patterns matter greatly, especially if lawyers sit back and think creatively. In Illinois, a trial court recently received a fact...

Kirk Hartley

Jun 24, 20165 min

Craziness: Scientists and Lawyers Talk Together: Upcoming “2016 Symposium – The Demise of the

Workplace deaths and injuries are increasingly in focus for many reasons. For one, cancer strikes 1 in 2 US males and 1 in 3 females, and...

Kirk Hartley

Oct 17, 20121 min

Workers’ Compensation as a Human Rights Issue

The American Journal of Industrial Medicine has a freely available issue focused on the concept of treating workers’ compensation as a...

Kirk Hartley

Jul 6, 20092 min

New Science – Danish Industrial Compensation for Breast Cancer from Night Work

Here’s a new example of changes in science causing changes in law. An article here reports the Danish government has now paid industrial...

Kirk Hartley

Apr 7, 20092 min

Proceedings are Underway in an Italian Criminal Prosecution of Owners and Managers for Exposing Empl

A Swiss media article describes significant media and partisan attention focused on the first day of trial in an asbestos-related...

Kirk Hartley

Jan 19, 20081 min

The inductive fallacy

An article in today’s (Nashville) Tennessean newspaper reveals that the worker’s compensation liabilities of the state’s bankrupt...

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