Law Professor Finds Home Health Care Workers Have Few Legal Protections
...so exempt from minimum wage, overtime and worker's compensation laws. As a result, she said most home health car...e been paid, most noticeably in terms of increased compensation and the provision of benefits. However, Smith said that limited progress has been made with respect ...Orissa Hospital, Surgeon Fined for Wrong Treatment
...N Das ordered the doctor and the clinic to pay the compensation amount to the patient. The forum also ordered the clinic and the doctor to pay Rs.10,000 towards litigation expenses, Bag said. Source-IANS...MS Diagnosed Cop Kept in the Dark
...ers. An award winning cop, Dimmock will receive a compensation of 10,000 pounds as an out-of -court settlement from East Sussex Hospitals, an NHS (National Health Service) trust of Britain. Dimmock had seen a line of specialist doctors for various symptoms, which he says almost, drove him to suicide. Yet it ...Man Gets Compensation for Psittacosis
...k. His normal life has come to a standstill. His compensation has been settled out of court by the shop that he worked for who acknowledged the damages caused to him by the parrot. JYT...Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict
...sing financial assistance to the States for paying compensation to the villagers for the damage caused by the wild animals. Various reasons have been attributed to the increase in human-leopard conflict. Depletion of the natural prey base, degradation of the habitat, suitability of man modified habitats to leop...Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims
...s at the time of the tragedy can't get any kind of compensation or facilities provided to gas victims. "It has been decided to pursue with the central government so it declares the remaining 20 wards of Bhopal as gas- affected and compensates their residents too," Gaur said. Source-IANS...Concerns About Working Overtime May Be Misplaced
...fects were limited to an increased risk of workers compensation episodes for hourly female employees with a histor...whose origins preceded the number of hours worked: compensation type, demographics, and particularly prior diseases and health status. Previous studies have sugg...More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough
... called on the U.S. government to renew a victims' compensation fund that expired in 2004 so that it can cover claims from people whose health symptoms developed years after the World Trade Center collapse. Bloomberg sums up his appeal in these words: Anything less and they (the federal government) would be t...Autism Expert Creates Innovative Intervention Program
...n the program and earn either university credit or compensation while learning how to effectively teach students with ASD. Higbee said the ASSERT success comes from the rigorous training and satellite program. USU’s ASSERT classroom serves as a training site for current and future special education teachers and...Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science
...id £250 plus travel expenses, the existing maximum compensation for any egg or sperm donor. Anyone agreeing to donate will have to show that they are acting for altruistic reasons, for example because they have a close relative suffering with one of the conditions scientists are trying to develop new treatments f...NRI Fights for HIV Child Who was Refused Treatment
...tainted blood. 'We also demand adequate financial compensation for this innocent child whose life has been devastated due to the dismal failure of the healthcare system failing which we must move the court of law seeking justice for this hapless child and his devastated family,' Saha said. Kunal Saha, whose wif...‘Delayed Reaction’ to Radiation Therapy Takes the Life of a Woman After 30 Yeas
... Group Exposure, the Government will certainly pay compensation for victims when radiation treatment is officially recognized as the cause of death. Michael Williams, Vice President of Royal College of Radiologists, said: 'Sadly, Mrs. Roper was a very rare case of a patient who has an extreme reaction to radio...Turkey Giant to Receive King-sized Compensation
... of Libdem Food and Farming says, claims against compensation would be ‘woefully misplaced’ at such a time. In the wake of recent problems associated with the bird flu outbreak, Bernard Mathews has decided to lay off another 38 of its workers, bringing the total number to 168.Yet, a representative of the wor...Weakened Hospital Care During Weekends
...ds on the physicians. Increase of staffs and their compensation and providing PCI, colonoscopy and miscellaneous advanced services during weekends are bound to help in this issue. Applying premiums to medicare reimbursement for weekend treatments also would better the patient care. For the patients too, Kosti...Military Healthcare Lacks Compassion, Say US Soldiers
...itics contend, are manipulated to limit disability compensation to wounded soldiers. RM/V...NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital
...esponsible for the incident and adequate financial compensation for Patrick's family. PBT is an organisation of patients fighting against the malpractices in medical treatment. It was formed in the course of a huge legal battle waged by Kunal Saha, an AIDS vaccine researcher, after his wife Anuradha died of all...Better Risk Management Could Cut MRSA Infection Rates
... costs the NHS £1bn a year in terms of prevention, compensation payments and additional treatment. Deaths involving MRSA rose from 51 in 1993 to 1,629 in 2005. All NHS hospitals carry insurance to cover them against claims for illness and injuries caused by medical treatment. As with other insurance settings, ...NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India
...als?" asked Saha who has filed the highest medical compensation case in the country against Kolkata's AMRI Hospita...e Court on March 31 had admitted a Rs.1.43 billion compensation claim by Saha after Delhi-based National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) dismissed th...Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses
...o prove the cause of death in order to qualify for compensation due the dead worker’s family. The changes of r...o prove they got cancer on the job in order to get compensation from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). In March 1987, 69 Kitchener firefighters rus......ment and hospital authorities to state reasons why compensation should not be paid to his parents for his upbringing. Taking suo motu cognisance of a newspaper report, a division bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and S.N. Aggarwal earlier this week asked the central government, the health ministry and the state-run ...