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17 Sep, 2008 12:57 am
Washington Post writer Walter Pincus notes an increase in proposed contracts to civilian companies to operate in Afghanistan. It seems this will coincide with a potential "surge"
in the ever-bloodier warfront in Afghanistan. "The military is stretched very thin, and to keep low the deployments numbers, there is a tendency to go to contractors who have [...]
22 Sep 5:26 am
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17 Jun, 2007 7:40 am
The Duke lacrosse prosecutor acted as a "minister of injustice", said State Bar prosecutor Douglas Brocker. The disciplinary committee wound up agreeing unanimously on nearly every
element of the ethics charges against Nifong, who's agreed to quit as Durham prosecutor. (Aaron Beard, "N.C. Panel Disbars Duke Prosecutor",
AP/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Jun. 16; "Nifong stripped of law license", Sports Network, Jun. 17). We've covered the case extensively from early on; K.C. Johnson at Durham in ...
10 Nov, 2007 9:41 am
... . My own views haven't changed since I wrote on the proposal in Reason a decade ago in the course of a review of Andrew Sullivan (who has switched sides since then and now favors
the bill). Both sides of the debate get fully aired in the comments to this Dale Carpenter post and by various contributors to the Independent Gay Forum. More: Possibly related, the
case of Aaron Charney versus Sullivan & Cromwell has settled: David Lat, "A Big Pay Day for Big Law Gay?", New York Observer, Nov. 6.
22 Dec, 2007 5:59 am
"Gov. Charlie Crist has asked three prominent trial lawyers to review the property insurance industry's compliance with an 11-month-old reform and recommend whether or not to sue the
insurers," reports Aaron Deslatte of the Orlando Sentinel. Prof. Grace wonders if...
17 Mar, 2008 9:57 am
We try to stay away from the political debate over Iraq, but this tidbit is quite topical in our ongoing discussion of the Defense Base Act (DBA). Private security contractors have been
controversial addtions to the U.S.'s contractor forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Based on the nature of their positions in this dangerous arena, it [...]
15 Mar, 2008 9:40 pm
And the hits keep coming for KBR. Click - KBR - in case you missed their previous antics. US contractor may have provided tainted water to soldiers in Iraq A spate of illnesses among US
troops at several bases in Iraq may have been caused by untested and possibly tainted water supplied by a private contractor then [...]
15 Mar, 2008 7:59 pm
For more, see the March 12 post from the "Ataxingmatter' Blog House chairman asks agencies to probe Blackwater By Rafael Enrique Valero rvalero@nationaljournal.com March 11, 2008 In
letters sent to the Internal Revenue Service, Small Business Administration, and Labor Department on Monday, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform, [...]
14 Mar, 2008 7:27 am
This disappointing story was reported yesterday by the Washington Post: Five Severed Fingers Identified as Belonging To Guards Held in Iraq "The four Crescent contractors whose fingers
have been identified are Jonathon Cote, 25, of Getzville, N.Y.; Paul Reuben, 41, of Buffalo, Minn.; Joshua Munns, 25, of Redding, Calif.; and Bert Nussbaumer, 26, of Vienna, Austria.
The [...]
9 Mar, 2008 9:19 pm
Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) sure is a piece of work. Lets recap a week or so of posts concerning KBR. 1. KBR has been passing along to the American taxpayer, AIG's inflated premiums
for Defense Base Act coverage, so that KBR (and other contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan) could be insulated from liability for injuries to [...]
7 Mar, 2008 10:04 am
The sad back story of this court case has come to be known as the "Good Friday Massacre." Friday, April 9, 2004, hundreds of insurgents attacked a KBR convoy, killing 6 civilian
drivers, injuring 14, and leaving another driver still missing to this day. To make a long story short, KBR a former subsidiary of Halliburton has been [...]
6 Mar, 2008 4:36 pm
In a recent Houston Chronicle article, Steven Schooner, senior associate dean of the George Washington University School of Law and apparent expert on military outsourcing, revealed
this as a possible explaination of the lack of public knowledge and debate concerning American, non-military casualties, in Iraq. "The public all too frequently perceives contractor
personnel in Iraq as expendable profiteers, adventure-seekers or [...]
29 Feb, 2008 1:00 pm
This comes as no surprise to many, but AIG may have been lining its pockets at the expense U.S. taxpayers. AIG is currently under investigation for overcharging KBR Inc., the Army's
largest contractor in Iraq, possibly by tens of millions. The money paying for these overpriced premiums comes from tax payers as part of the $23+ Billion [...]
14 Apr, 2008 10:02 am
I have been reading a lot of comments throughout the internet cheering the recent tort suits against KBR regarding the Good Friday Massacre and also potential sodium dichromate
exposures. See - "Hoist by their own petard" and "Suing the crap out of KBR." Part of their argument is that KBR should not be able to "hide behind" [...]
15 Apr, 2008 10:05 am
Often, injured workers choose to settle their cases with their employer's insurance company in return for one-time cash payments. These settlements often take into consideration: Unpaid
total temporary disability or partial disability benefits (TTD or TPD) TTD or TPD benefits likely to be owed in the future Future medical expenses Permanent disability benefits owed or
likely to be owed Any penalties [...]
15 Apr, 2008 10:03 am
An injured employee covered by workers' compensation is entitled to medical treatment at the employer's expense. If the employee misses any work due to the injury or is permanently
injured the employee is likely due one or more of three types of cash benefits. These cash benefits are: Total Temporary Disability (TTD) Total Partial Disability (TPD) Permanent
Partial [...]
15 Apr, 2008 9:59 am
Medical Treatment under Georgia Workers' Compensation The Good News: Unlike most situations with cash benefits, your medical benefits are basically never-ending. In other words, once
you have an "accepted" claim, one in which your employer or their insurer has paid you income benefits or has paid for your medical treatment, your employer owes you treatment related
to [...]
15 Apr, 2008 9:57 am
You know you are injured, but is your injury covered by Workers' Compensation? Georgia's workers' compensation laws require that for compensation to be due, an injury to an employee
must 1) "arise out of" and 2) "in the course of" employment. These are deceptively complicated requirements here in Georgia. There is no clear cut test [...]
15 Apr, 2008 9:52 am
What is Workers' Compensation? In Georgia, Workers' Compensation operates as a "no fault" system for compensating injured workers for time missed from work and for costs of necessary
medical treatment. The system presents trade-offs for Georgia workers. While it bars claims against an employer for personal injury, it also bars some of the defenses an employer [...]
19 Jul, 2008 4:22 pm
I came accross this July 11, 2008 story from the Washington Business Journal. It tells the sad tale of 12 men from Nepal hired by KBR subcontractor, Daoud & Partners to work in a
luxury hotel in Jordan. Unfortunately, these men were forcibily re-directed, if not kidnapped, by the subcontractor and sent to Iraq to serve [...]
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