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Workers' compensation law that can have lower rewards upheld by Kansas Supreme Court Megan Stringer, The Wichita Eagle Jan. 8—Workers injured on the job in Kansas can continue to be evaluated for impairment following medical guidelines that might reduce the amount of their workers' compensation award, the state Supreme Court ruled. In a decision released Friday, justices reversed a ruling from the Kansas Court of Appeals that favored Howard Johnson, but also avoided the constitutional question Johnson posed. Johnson suffered a serious spinal cord injury while working as a de...

Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press photo by: AP File Photo Justices return from recess during hearings before the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka, Kan., Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) BELLE PLAINE (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a state law which governs how much money workers who are injured on the job can collect. The court ruled that an amendment to the Kansas Workers Compensation Act was constitutional because it did not alter the requirement that a worker’s impairment be “established by competent medical evidence.” The court last year heard arguments...

I. The personal injury legal system is dependent upon medicine. People obviously require care and treatment for injuries; the dependence runs deeper however. When determining damages, the law needs a methodology for predicting future medical costs, for assessing overall function loss, and in general calculating appropriate damages. Despite the law's need for this, lawyers are not postured to deliver with any sense of objectivity. Thus, the legal system turns to other professions to deliver opinions upon which the legal system may rely. Opinions are diverse. Anyone's opinion on a topic may be ...

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, transportation officials around the world have been looking for ways to keep passengers and crew safe on board planes. On November 25, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) released new guidelines for the country’s airline industry, which it oversees. The document, titled Technical Guidelines for Epidemic Prevention and Control for Airlines, Sixth Edition, contains advice about the best hygiene practices to carry out on aircraft and in airports. But one of those suggestions — that personnel like flight attendants wear disposable diap...

AMES – Interest in home food preservation boomed this summer and fall due to the pandemic. With so many people preserving food at home for the first time, there is concern about botulism outbreaks. Improperly home-canned, preserved or fermented foods can provide the right conditions for botulinum, the bacteria that causes botulism, to grow. In November, five people in Colorado became sick with botulism after consuming home canned foods. This is an important reminder to follow safe food handling and research-based food preservation recipes, said Sarah Francis, associate professor and nutr...