Attorney argue over worker’s comp claim after Walmart shooting
- Briana Tyler is suing Walmart for $50 million after her shift supervisor killed six people last November in Virginia.
- Walmart’s attorney claims that employee-on-employee violence is a matter for workers’ compensation and not a lawsuit unless it’s a personal matter between the aggressor and the victim.
- Tyler’s attorney Mark Favaloro told Judge Stephen Telfeyan that his client would have had no reasonable expectation of getting shot in just her seventh week on the job on the overnight shift.
- The lawsuit also claims Walmart was negligent because the company did not heed prior complaints about the shooter threatening to kill someone if he would get fired.
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- Two people were injured in a partial building collapse at a home being renovated in Newton, Massachusetts.
- The incident was reported just before 11 a.m. at a home under construction on Sterling Street.
- Newton Deputy Fire Chief Mike McNamara said the building was unoccupied and was under renovation. The two people injured were working on the building.
- One of the workers dove out of the way, but the other worker was trapped and had to be rescued by National Grid employees who were at the scene, and both workers were taken to local hospitals.
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Temporary disability benefits increase with age
- The majority of lost-time claims receive temporary disability benefits at some point, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI).
- Average duration of temporary disability benefits increases with age, although the rate of increase slows down after 40.
- The Construction and Utilities sector has the longest average duration of all the economic sectors.
- Among the most common injuries seen in workers’ compensation, shoulder claims have the longest average duration.
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