I’m all for exclusive remedy. It cuts out court cases that do nothing but waste money and tie up the system.
And gross negligence is an exception in exclusive remedy. If they can’t prove gross negligence they’ll have to settle for what workers’ comp gives them.
The Texas Supreme Court has actually agreed to re-decide its own decision on this matter, just showing the circulation and power of money in that state among Republican judges, and the big corporations and their lackey law firms. Oil companies especially benefited from the original and for now still standing decision by gaining immunity from contract workers. Thank goodness public outrage is too big to pull this one off for too long.
We are just peasants compared to the power of big oil in this country. Our government has sold us out. Consider this: Brit Petroleum runs unsafe plants throughout the US to save on maintenance costs. Dozens died recently in an accident in Texas. Their filth and pollution are essentially unregulated in states like Texas. In Germany and elsewhere, they have to have real and effective pollution controls. Brain and other cancer is rampant in refinery areas in Texas and Louisiana. The big colonial master from BP arrives from England to dole out some money to the little people when some die in a plant–trinkets for lives.
Brit Petroleum is also entrusted with that important US National Asset, the Alaska pipeline and lets it corrode so badly that it has to be shut down–and oil prices go up as a result and they come out ahead.
Time to get those oilmen out of the White House and out of everywhere we can. Time to make the big oil companies clean up to the extent required in Western Europe and quit treating us like a third world country–which we are well on our way to becoming, thanks to the oilmen in the White House (and at the famous undisclosed location).
Thanks for the rant. If they’re corrupt why did they agree to rehear the case, which currently protects big oil interests? Also, what are the details of the BP explosion? If there is gross negligence that’s an exception to the exclusive remedy doctrine of workers’ comp and the families/employees CAN sue. Based on this article I would surmise this was not the case? I don’t know the facts of the explosion but it could have just as easily been the negligence of a fellow employee who had been properly trained and simply took a mental holiday as negligence by the owners with the deep pockets. This is a tragic situation but nowhere in the article is liability for the explosion discussed… If BP wouldn’t allow local management to maintain the plant properly they could easily have made a call to OSHA. They didn’t. Everything is not the big conspiracy you’d like.
agreed lastbat, this is nothing more than a money grab at a depp pocket and it’s sickening. so glad i didn’t have to be one of those people watching the “emotional parade” of injured workers, i think i would have puked. Hello, you do have WC and you want more? Sickening.
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I’m all for exclusive remedy. It cuts out court cases that do nothing but waste money and tie up the system.
And gross negligence is an exception in exclusive remedy. If they can’t prove gross negligence they’ll have to settle for what workers’ comp gives them.
This smacks of greed to me.
The Texas Supreme Court has actually agreed to re-decide its own decision on this matter, just showing the circulation and power of money in that state among Republican judges, and the big corporations and their lackey law firms. Oil companies especially benefited from the original and for now still standing decision by gaining immunity from contract workers. Thank goodness public outrage is too big to pull this one off for too long.
We are just peasants compared to the power of big oil in this country. Our government has sold us out. Consider this: Brit Petroleum runs unsafe plants throughout the US to save on maintenance costs. Dozens died recently in an accident in Texas. Their filth and pollution are essentially unregulated in states like Texas. In Germany and elsewhere, they have to have real and effective pollution controls. Brain and other cancer is rampant in refinery areas in Texas and Louisiana. The big colonial master from BP arrives from England to dole out some money to the little people when some die in a plant–trinkets for lives.
Brit Petroleum is also entrusted with that important US National Asset, the Alaska pipeline and lets it corrode so badly that it has to be shut down–and oil prices go up as a result and they come out ahead.
Time to get those oilmen out of the White House and out of everywhere we can. Time to make the big oil companies clean up to the extent required in Western Europe and quit treating us like a third world country–which we are well on our way to becoming, thanks to the oilmen in the White House (and at the famous undisclosed location).
Thanks for the rant. If they’re corrupt why did they agree to rehear the case, which currently protects big oil interests? Also, what are the details of the BP explosion? If there is gross negligence that’s an exception to the exclusive remedy doctrine of workers’ comp and the families/employees CAN sue. Based on this article I would surmise this was not the case? I don’t know the facts of the explosion but it could have just as easily been the negligence of a fellow employee who had been properly trained and simply took a mental holiday as negligence by the owners with the deep pockets. This is a tragic situation but nowhere in the article is liability for the explosion discussed… If BP wouldn’t allow local management to maintain the plant properly they could easily have made a call to OSHA. They didn’t. Everything is not the big conspiracy you’d like.
agreed lastbat, this is nothing more than a money grab at a depp pocket and it’s sickening. so glad i didn’t have to be one of those people watching the “emotional parade” of injured workers, i think i would have puked. Hello, you do have WC and you want more? Sickening.