InjuryBoard Fairbanks Archives

• Insurance Companies Beg for Juries

  Ward Merdes | November 30, 2006 9:14 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Insurance companies claim to fear juries - alleging that they are "out of control." At the same time, insurance companies insist on juries (instead of judges) in every case. Why is that? Of course, it's because juries believe insurance company rhetoric - that there is a "lawsuit crisis" and give tiny little verdicts. There is no lawsuit crisis. Insurance companies love juries. Actions speak...

• Worker's Compensation Change Hurt Working Alaskans

  Ward Merdes | November 18, 2006 1:00 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Republicans Benefit Big Business, Sticking It To The Working Man/Woman.. Again.Republicans change workplace rules in favor of industry ... again. [Surprise, surprise]Alaska's Republican majority in the Senate recently changed workplace rules in favor of industry ... again. They hammered the working man ... again. While we have grown to expect this conduct, this most recent one was particularly...