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Gazette investigative reporter Paul Nyden pointed out in a 1993 series of award-winning stories, several large coal companies used contractors as a shield, letting them bear the burden of Workers' Comp premiums, environmental fines... Published: Tuesday, August 13, 1996 Words: 293
Hardwoods Inc., his company. James C. Justice II and his wife Stephanie also invested $100,000. Since 1990, Bluestone Coal Co., their company, has used 50 contractors to mine coal. Contractors are small, independent mining companies... Published: Sunday, October 20, 1996 Words: 844
for whom they worked is often a time-consuming process. The companies which used contractors most frequently are: A.T. Massey Coal Co., Island Creek Coal Co., the Pittston Co., Bluestone Coal Corp. and National Mines Corp., according... Published: Wednesday, August 14, 1996 Words: 717
premiums, and environmental fines and fees. Sutter said the new regulation is also designed to prevent the owners of a company paying high premiums (due to a bad accident history) from setting up new companies to get lower premiums.... Published: Thursday, August 08, 1996 Words: 626
280,000 workers and provide work for tens of thousands of private contractors nationwide. Money would be provided for the departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, State, Commerce, Justice, Veterans Affairs, Interior,... Published: Friday, January 26, 1996 Words: 824
expenses for the injured workers. On top of that, the injured workers are free to sue the company on their own behalf. Workers' Comp officials announced that Talon would be charged premiums at the higher rate from now on - $32.50 per... Published: Tuesday, November 19, 1996 Words: 524
who specializes in tracking relationships between coal companies, said last year that 83 percent of all coal industry debt to workers' comp can be tied to mines owned or controlled by major coal companies, such as A.T. Massey Coal Co.,... Published: Sunday, August 11, 1996 Words: 906
with little or no lost time. But some are major, career-ending injuries. Just before the new, stricter law took effect, Workers' Comp granted permanent total disability awards to 32 of the last 64 workers who applied for them. Most... Published: Sunday, November 17, 1996 Words: 1486
said the fund was $1.5 billion in debt when he fought to pass a law increasing employer premiums and making it harder for injured workers to qualify for compensation benefits. It has taken a long time for Richardson and the Caperton... Published: Tuesday, April 23, 1996 Words: 380
AIDE is one of dozens of small groups materializing around the country to fight reforms that unions say are restructuring workers' comp at the expense of the workers it is supposed to protect. Workers' compensation, funded by employer... Published: Monday, June 03, 1996 Words: 715
