Law News
-Two men who were helping dismantle a tower crane have been charged with four violations of city construction codes stemming from the death of a worker after her fell over 40 stories to his death. The men have been accused of illegally cutting the safety guardrail on a platform that the worker fell from.
“Despite months and months of public pleas for construction safety, our investigators found glaring violations at a high-rise work site where a construction worker fell to his death,” Rose Gill Hearn, the Department of Investigation commissioner, said.
Robert LiMandri, the buildings commissioner-designate, said that the removal of the safety railing played a critical role in causing the accident, noting, “It was a shortcut gone terribly wrong that compromised rigging operations and put the lives of fellow workers in jeopardy.”
-A proposed federal bill aims to tighten security on electronic health records as well as giving financial incentives for doctors who use the system.
The bill would require notification when personal health information is breached and extend federal privacy laws to organizations that conduct business with providers. It would also require providers to receive patient consent to use or disclose protected information, according to a committee news release.
An amendment to the bill would require health information exchanges and other entities to comply with security rules included in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, in addition to the privacy rules included in the legislation, according to a summary of revisions to the bill.
-New findings show that over 90 percent of Long Island Rail Road workers have been allowed to collect disability as well as their pension plans after retirement. Federal officers have seized documents from the Long Island office of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board and are now investigating the situation and law loopholes.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
[...] story about Long Island Rail Road retirees collecting disability benefits is heating up after it was discovered that some were seeking disability payments from private [...]