Sunday, January 29, 2012

NFL workers’ comp cases could rise to high court

The National Football League is battling its players’ association in at least four different courts over where players can file workers’ compensation claims. Players signed contracts binding them to file workers’ comp claims in a jurisdiction designated by the team, and then they chose to file claims in another jurisdiction that they found more favorable, California in most cases.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Milpitas Man Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud

Santa Clara County prosecutors have charged a 56-year-old Milpitas landscape company owner with underreporting employees’ wages between 2007 and 2010 in order to fraudulently reduce his workers’ compensation insurance premium and employment tax obligations.

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