State: HI Uninsured Contractors Fined, State Investigating other Complaints:

A task force comprised of multiple state agencies fined contractors building a townhouse project $45,025 for not carrying workers’ compensation insurance and multiple safety violations, according to a report by Hawaii News Now. Deputy State Labor Director Audrey Hidano said seven contractors and subcontractors

A grocery store did not commit disability discrimination when it fired a manager with Parkinson’s disease for using a painkiller without a prescription, a New Jersey appellate court ruled. Case: Martin v. Quick Chek Corp., No. A-2637-10T2, 1/18/12, unpublished. Facts: Erik Martin, a store

The owners of a mixed-use property are liable for the workers’ compensation claim of an uninsured contractor, the Supreme Court of Alaska concluded. Case: Trudell v. Hibbert, No. S-13608, 2/17/12, published. Facts: Lawrence Trudell, an employee of Phillips Construction Co., was injured while climbing

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Friday it has issued an Oklahoma grain-handling facility four serious safety citations, with fines totaling $21,500, following an accident on Aug. 4 in which two 17-year-old workers each lost a leg. OSHA reported the teenagers working for

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chief Florida’s crackdown on “pill mills” cut physicians’ purchases of the opioid painkiller oxycodone by 97% during 2011 and appears to have driven the business to Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, according to a report issued last week by the

An Ohio appellate court upheld the denial of death benefits to the estate of a morbidly obese woman who died of a heart attack after having to walk a block from an off-site parking lot to her workplace, because her normal parking space adjacent

By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau Chief Two of most powerful members of the Oklahoma Legislature have agreed to carry legislation to give employers an alternative to workers’ compensation to protect injured workers – and to reduce costs to businesses. Senate President Pro Tempore Brian

A sting targeting Central California Valley contractors charging excessive up-front payments caught five contractors who were operating without workers’ compensation insurance, including a registered sex offender who had not submitted to a background check, according to a press release from the Contractors State License

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The most important thing you can do to keep your employees safe on a construction site is to create, maintain and follow a strict health and safety plan.  In general, as the owner of a construction business, or someone involved in the construction industry,