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AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills - Workman's Compensation and coal industry - Brief Article

A giant problem for West Virginia is Workman's Compensation, a fund that corporations are supposed to finance in order to pay benefits to their workers who are injured on the job. The catch is that in West Virginia a lot of the coal companies fail to pay their share of the premiums. They have been allowed to get away without paying, sometimes by corrupt officials, but more often for the same reasons that keep the state from enforcing environmental laws: It doesn't...

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