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Longshore and Longshore Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA) Claims

The Longshore and Longshore Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) is a federal law that requires maritime employers to provide workers' compensation insurance that covers on-the-job injuries and occupational diseases of their employees. that occur in the navigable waters of the United States, or contiguous areas. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act provides compensation for workers who are injured while working

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The modern meaning of Hawthorne’s suspicion of science

Many of Hawthorne's characters are plagued by internal conflicts that are never resolved into an orderly resolution. "The Birthmark", however, has a more clearly defined moral than some of Hawthorne's other works. The social significance of this story that was written more than 150 years ago lives on in our modern age with startling clarity. An obsession with physical perfection

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Does Uptalk make you throw up?

Uptalk is invading the workplace and reaching epidemic proportions. It's that sing-song speech pattern that has a rising inflection at the end of the sentence. It sounds like the speaker is asking a question instead of making a statement.Once the exclusive domain of teenagers, it is now a regular part of the adult world. And I don't mean Generation X.

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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

The subtitle of Maxwell's book is "Follow Them and People Will Follow You". Every time I read that, I hear a retort in my head: "Don't follow them and people won't follow you." Revised and updated in 2007 for the tenth anniversary of The 21 Irrefutable Laws, this book is rightly considered a seminal piece of leadership literature.As the title

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Why trusts don’t work for asset protection

A trust is the right to effective enjoyment of assets over which another person has legal title; a property interest held by one person (the trustee) at the request of another (the settler) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary). Trusts go by different names depending on their purpose, i.e. land trusts, charitable remainder trusts, irrevocable trusts, etc.Trusts are usually

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