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Utah man forced to seek legal help after waking up from a coma
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If you spend roughly one-third of your life at work, accidents are certain to occur. In 2019 alone, the Nationwide Security Council’s Harm Details sheet reported 48.3 million accidents and 173,040 preventable deaths within the office. (And these are simply the numbers that have been truly reported.)
With few exceptions, Utah legislation requires employers to hold employees’ compensation insurance coverage to guard workers who’re injured at work. This helps cowl medical bills and gives a modest wage to workers till they can return to work. Within the case of a everlasting harm or office loss of life, employees’ compensation insurance coverage pays incapacity advantages to the worker or loss of life advantages to an worker’s household. It would not matter whether or not the accident was the employer’s or the worker’s fault.
However employees’ compensation isn’t any get-rich-quick scheme. The advantages are bare-bones and designed primarily to assist preserve the employees’ households afloat whereas workers get better from work accidents. Most employees would hand over their employees’ compensation advantages in a heartbeat if it meant the preliminary accident or harm by no means occurred within the first place. Even with modest insurance coverage protection, the street to bodily and monetary restoration isn’t simple.
One employees compensation insurance coverage firm encourages workers to remain secure with the tagline, “Watch out on the market.” However another excuse to “watch out on the market” is that insurance coverage firms don’t prefer to pay for these claims. They’ll typically use each means at their disposal to delay or keep away from cost altogether.
Such was the case for James (whose title has been modified) earlier than he sought skilled authorized assist.
Stranded in Guatemala in a coma
James suffered a damaged ankle after falling off a ladder at work whereas putting in cable TV gear on the roof of a buyer’s house. He was rushed to the closest rural hospital after which life-flighted to a significant trauma heart in Utah as a result of he was additionally a hemophiliac. After surgical procedure to restore his ankle and a number of other weeks of rehabilitation (together with “issue eight” blood clotting therapy), he was launched from the hospital.
Lower than a month after his launch, he requested his physician if he may fly to Guatemala to go to his household. The physician stated, “I do not see why not. Simply do not do any hill climbing!” When he reached Dallas-Ft. Price, his leg had began hurting, swelling, and turning purple. By the point he landed in Guatemala, his leg was black, and he was rushed straight to the hospital from the airport. James had surgical procedure and spent three months in a coma in Guatemala earlier than being flown (at nice expense) to Miami, Florida, the place he spent one other six months recovering.
Lastly, he was steady sufficient to return to Utah and spent a further three months within the hospital—the one he had been life-flighted to initially.
James was lined by medical health insurance, however he was nonetheless being billed greater than $600,000 for copays, deductibles, co-insurance, and bills that exceeded his medical health insurance coverage limits. He was planning to declare chapter.
The employees compensation provider denied that any of the blood clotting issues he skilled throughout his flight to Guatemala have been related to his damaged ankle, his surgical procedure, or his blood clotting therapy.
Davis & Sanchez filed a criticism for James with the Utah Labor Fee. The employees compensation provider, somewhat than litigate what was most certainly a dropping case, provided to settle the case. We have been in a position to get the employees compensation insurance coverage to pay his $98,000 Miami hospital invoice, reimburse his medical health insurance nicely over $1 million, get him paid for greater than a 12 months of misplaced wages and keep away from submitting chapter.
Most office accidents aren’t reported
What occurred to James may simply occur to you or to these you like.
In 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a median of two.8 per 100 full-time employees have been injured on the job that 12 months. The commonest non-fatal accidents have been sprains, strains, and tears. Transportation accidents accounted for the commonest reason for work-related deaths.
If you’re coping with the lasting results of a office harm or loss of life, the very last thing you need is a monetary burden to hold as nicely. Nevertheless, many employees are unaware of the advantages out there to them by way of employee’s compensation. The Occupational Security and Well being Administration reviews a good portion of office accidents go unreported and has proposed amending its recordkeeping course of to provide a extra correct accounting.
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Utah family creates 'Giving Gallery' to spread joy of art
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — You might have heard of little libraries in neighborhoods, but have you heard of Giving Galleries?
A family in Cottonwood Heights is using their love for art to bring joy to those around them.
On the corner of Promenade and Camino is Abigail Bradshaw.
“I’m standing next to an art gallery, my art gallery. That’s my house,” she proudly said.
Abigail is showing her tiny art gallery filled with pieces made by her family and others who want to contribute. This home used to be her great-grandmother’s.
“She was an artist, and so, I wanted to continue that legacy,” said Katie Bradshaw, Abigail’s mom. They found a box, painted it, propped it up, and filled it with tiny art. Anyone can just look at the art, pick up something they like, or put their own piece inside.
Miles Jacobsen is a friend who saw what the Bradshaws were doing and added his artwork to the box.
For people who want to make their own masterpieces, there is also a box of free art supplies in the gallery box. You can come by to pick up paint, paintbrushes, and tiny canvasses to create your own art, which you can drop off at the “giving gallery” to bring joy to someone else.
“I feel really glad that people come and get some art and put it in there,” said Abigail.
Filling the box is something Katie does with her kids.
“I hope that they can carry this with them, that they continue sharing art, no matter where they are,” she said.
Spreading joy to everyone who walks by, and letting the cycle continue.
“I want them to feel happy and glad that they got some, so they could return some back here,” added Abigail.
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Amid traffic, Utah walked to Leafs’ arena pregame
TORONTO — The Utah Hockey Club said players were forced to walk to their game against the Maple Leafs after their bus got stuck in Toronto traffic Sunday night.
The team posted a video on social media of team members walking to Scotiabank Arena, with player Maveric Lamoureux saying the bus was “not moving at all.”
Several city streets had been closed during the day for an annual Santa Claus parade.
The Maple Leafs earned their fourth consecutive win by defeating Utah 3-2.
The viral incident prompted Ontario Premier Doug Ford to call the congestion “embarrassing” and “unacceptable,” highlighting his government’s plan to address the city’s gridlock through bike lane legislation.
It wasn’t the first time a Toronto visitor had to ditch their vehicle to make it to an event on time.
In June, former One Direction band member Niall Horan had to walk through traffic to get to his concert at Scotiabank Arena.
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Utah Highway Patrol responds to your suggestions on making Utah roads safer
SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 News is Driven to Change and that includes bringing you reports on important topics like road rage, construction, and wrong-way drivers. During our coverage, we continually ask for any questions or concerns you may have along Utah’s roadways.
The feedback has gotten an enormous response, so FOX 13 sat down with Lieutenant Cameron Roden on Good Day Utah to help address input we have been getting, from the perspective of Utah Highway Patrol.
Speeding in Utah, there’s so much of it, and then you can sometimes say that that leads to tailgating, which may lead to road rage incidents. What are you seeing out there in terms of speed and what can we do to lessen the effects of that?
Lt. Cameron Roden: Speed is our number one thing that we see. That’s our number one traffic stop that we make, and we know that it leads to the majority of crashes in the state of Utah. So we definitely put an emphasis on speed and it does lead to other things. Not just crashes. It leads to road rage and other things .So, as far as what changes can we make, we need to start with ourselves, and really say, ‘Hey, do I have a problem?’ You know, we just need to start with ourselves and not think that it’s something else’s problem. If we slow our speeds ourselves, and then it’ll start to to catch on and people will do that speed limit. So, but the legislature has definitely taken some steps to help us address, especially the the speeds that are those excessive speeds where we have that one zero five law now that addresses those speeds and increases fines and and hopefully discourages people from those extreme speeds.
Some of our viewers talked about maybe capping some of the speed limits for truck drivers. Is that something that’s even feasible?
You know, that would be something that would have to go through that, that legislative process to see whether we that would be something that would help. But ultimately, if we we start with ourselves, hopefully that will make that change and reduce crashes and fatalities.
There are things being done to try and intervene and stop wrong-way drivers before they happen. But some of our viewers propose things like spikes. What are your thoughts on implementing something like that?
We’ve had over the last several years, a rash of wrong-way drivers, and it’ll come in onesie twos, and then we’ll go for a period of time without that. And so, but this spike over the last couple of years has caused us to to create a task force to look at wrongly driving what things can be done. And so getting all these stakeholders together between UDOT and Highway Safety, looking at what technologies and things that could be implemented, and and things like, wrong way detection cameras. Those are some things that are being actually used in the state of Utah right now to help us spot those and and advance signage, getting people to realize they’re going the wrong way and turn around. The the spike strips have actually been talked about in our task force a little bit. And if something like that would even be, it is that technology available right now. And as what we could actually implement in the state of Utah, there’s nothing that really fits the bill right now because of our environment. We have our snow plows. We have snow and things like that. Something like that really wouldn’t be practical right now.
Probably the most talked about topic that we’ve received was distracted driving, texting while driving. You went out, I saw on the UHP social media page, that you guys just driving and you look to your right and left and you can find someone texting. What kind of enforcement do we have against distracted driving specifically on your phone?
This is something that we like you said, we see it every day. We go out to crashes,and and we may suspect that a driver may be distracted. And so, it’s something that’s definitely under-reported. It’s it’s a bigger problem than than the numbers really show.And so not only do we address it during our normal patrols.Our officers are seeing it, and addressing it while they’re out there.But we’ll also do targeted patrols where the highway safety office actually gives out additional funds for that targeted enforcement, where we’ll get an unmarked vehicle. We go out driving down the roads where we try to spot these vehicles and and get them stopped because those are those are a big danger on our roadways where our attention and our focus needs to be on driving.
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