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Man Who Fell from Cell Tower Was Not an Employee
08/17/2007
A wrongful death claim brought on behalf of a cell phone tower worker who falls to his death on his first day can stand a Missouri court ruled.
In Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Ennulat ED87952 08142007 the Court of Appeals also found that the plaintiffs were entitled to interest on
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AIG's Troubles Expand to 'National' Probe
07/09/2007
million involving its sale of "finite-risk" insurance to an Indiana cell phone distributor during the Greenberg regime.
The NWCRP case alleges AIG owes another 1 billion in back residual market assessments and damages.
Greenberg and Smith have filed suits in Delaware Chancery Court alleging the
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Carrier Targeted in 'Finite-Risk Insurance' Probe
07/06/2007
one jury verdict involving allegations against Indiana-based cell phone distributor Brightpoint and one of its insurers American International Group AIG.
Securities investigators in the Brightpoint case alleged that AIG helped it reduce a 29 million loss in the United Kingdom by 11.9 million
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Hay Truck Driver Deemed Special Employee of Farm
04/25/2007
person or by cell phone.
Morales's memory loss
Morales did not recall many of the details pertaining to relations between him JEB Farms and Lara. Morales's recollections about Jones are murky the court noted.
Notwithstanding his gaps in memory and the absence of details concerning his
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Report Cites Problems Leading to Fatal Explosion
04/11/2007
building.
"Witnesses said they attempted to alert him to the presence of the vapor cloud but said he was talking on a cell phone and may not have heard them" the board reported.
The vapor cloud ignited burning the driver who died several days later.
A temporary employee in an adjacent area
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Coal Mines Still Struggling With Safety Year After Sago
01/02/2007
complaints is the requirement for wireless two-way communication systems that mining companies say aren't reliable underground.
"You would think with cell- phone technology it wouldn't be problem" Raney said. "But when you get deep into the geology of the earth it gives off such a strange
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LAUSD Aide Equates Voc Rehab Offer to Firing
09/21/2006
charge. Bonjour left the office went outside and sat in her car
in the school's parking lot. Bonjour called the California Highway Patrol from her cell phone and told the dispatcher she was suicidal.
Ten days later Bonjour filed a workers' compensation claim asserting
both "work site stress
Category: News
Courier Firm Can't Classify Drivers as Independent Contractors
08/23/2006
on any given day. Each special driver is supposed to call JKH's dispatcher usually on his or her own cell phone each day to inform the dispatcher whether he or she wishes to work that day. Having communicated their availability to work on a given day the special drivers then receive information
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N.Y. 3rd: Personal Activity at Work Supports Denial
08/07/2006
New York's Third Appellate Division rejected a guard's claim for workers' compensation disability retirement benefits for a slip-and-fall accident that happened while she was walking to the car to get her cell phone.
The appellate court in Welch v. Hevesi
No. 500066 8306 turned down
Category: News
Kentucky Court: Salesman Dined, But Died on Duty
08/02/2006
sales representative. He called on physicians pediatricians neonatologists pediatric offices and hospitals. As part of his employment Smith was provided with a company vehicle gas credit cards cell phone PDA and laptop computer. He had no office other than an office located in his hom.
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