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• Vermont Delays New Workers Comp Rehab Rules Temporarily

  Christina Cole | December 21, 2006 10:19 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  Vermont Labor Department has delayed plans to change the way injured workers are evaluated for workers' comp claims.Stephen Monahan, director of the Workers Compensation and Safety Division, on Wednesday asked the Legislature's Administrative Rules Committee to delay the consideration of new rules which were on the panel's agenda that afternoon. The section of the new rules that need to be...

• Sleeping Driver Crashes Through Harbor City Fence

  Christina Cole | December 21, 2006 10:16 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A driver asleep at the wheel crashed a car through a Harbor City fence on Wednesday night, authorities said. The accident happened around 10:15 p.m. at the intersection of Vermount Avenue and Lomita Boulevard. The car, which had a Mexican license plate, rolled over after plowing through the fence, according to reporters at the scene. The two boys in the car were taken to the hospital for...

• Slip-and-Fall Suit Filed

  Christina Cole | December 21, 2006 2:30 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  A Kanawha County woman is suing a pharmacy for not maintaining the floor in a safe condition that caused her to slip and fall.On November 14th, Ann Hines filed her lawsuit against Fruth Pharmacy in Kanawha Circuit Court. Hines says Fruth had a duty to not expose its visitors to injury while they are exercising ordinary care with their own safety. The alleged incident happened on November 14th,...

• Family Files Wrongful-Death Suit

  Christina Cole | December 21, 2006 12:58 AM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

  The family of man that died last year after the guards found him unconscious in an Allen County Lockup cell filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.Brandon Wade, 41, died at Luther Hospital June 14, 2005. The guards found him unconscious on June 13 and called an ambulance but the lawsuit alleges an ambulance should have been called sooner. The Allen County coroner...

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  Staff Writer | December 01, 2006 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsVermont, VT

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