Workplace injuries happen.  Some such accidents involve debilitating injuries that include amputation of a hand, arm, finger, foot, leg or toe.  In fact, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, as many as 10,000 American workers are victims of amputation injury at work.  These workers represent 6.5 percent of all US amputations in a given year.
Some of these injuries may be due to equipment malfunctions or malfunction or bypass of safety features.  Others result from inattention.  Regardless of the cause, amputation injury is life changing.  The more catastrophic …

Previously I wrote a post about illegible handwriting and tips for deciphering such.  Then some posts were made about handwriting as it applied in education.  Seems some feel we no longer need to teach handwriting in school.
One of my colleagues posted…”[Handwriting] is not a prehistoric and dead curriculum.  The use of pens, pencils and handwriting is not going to go away any time soon, so learning how to do handwriting should certainly be a part of the  instruction in school that children receive in their elementary school curriculum.”
There …

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a Detroit doctor, accusing him of falsely diagnosing hundreds of children with epilepsy in order to increase his pay at Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center. The lawsuit claims that Dr. Yasser Awaad improperly diagnosed the children so he could perform a certain operation on them that, as part of his contract with the hospital, netted him extra money in his paycheck. The lawsuit also charges that Oakwood failed to properly monitor Awaad after other doctors alerted the hospital with concerns that Awaad was …

Uh Oh!
Smurfit-Stone Container company has agreed to pay $100,000 over allegations that the company dissuaded employees from filing injury claims with the state. Smurfit-Stone has not admitted to any wrongdoing in the workers-compensation fraud case, but will also pay a $4,293 share of restitution to victims, the Contra Costa Times reported.
The case started in 2007 and two former managers have plead guilty to misdemeanor charges back in March.   Allegedly the employees were not provided with workers compensation claim forms and claims were either not reported or not reported timely …