Federal Fire Protection Employees’ Compensation
Fire protection employees are routinely exposed to occupational hazards. These toxins include diesel emissions, combustion emissions, and carcinogens released during fires. As a result, people involved in fire protection activities are more likely to suffer heart attacks, stroke, and cancers associated with these chemicals. The Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) compensates for injuries and diseases […]
Savannah River Site Facility (SRS) EEOICPA Claim
The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a US DOE industrial complex that produces, processes, secures, and stores nuclear materials for national defense. It also engages in atomic nonproliferation efforts as well as the development and deployment of environmental protection technologies related to the treatment of solid and liquid hazardous nuclear wastes. The facility was originally […]
File a Claim for Washington Labor and Industry Claim Benefits
Hanford reservation employees’ health has been affected by exposure to toxic and radioactive materials while working at the nuclear site. Stephens and Stephens LLP helps DOE federal and contractor employees suffering from work-related illnesses file claims for compensation under the EEOICPA and state workers’ compensation programs. Hanford employees suffering from conditions linked to toxin exposures […]
Holdover Eviction Cases in Buffalo City, Erie County
Holdover cases are based on the expiry of a lease or failure to comply with a lease agreement. The steps involved in a holdover case include issuing a termination notice to the tenant, filing out the appropriate petition paperwork, paying a filing fee of $45, serving the tenant with the papers appropriately, and going through […]
Tenant Evictions in Buffalo City Erie County
The law governing tenant eviction in New York State defers in different counties. To start a tenant eviction process in Buffalo City in Erie County, a landlord must obtain an eviction warrant from the court. The landlord should first petition the court and prove their reason for eviction. The court then rules on the petition […]
Support for Black Lung Victims
Before the black lung regulations took effect in the 1970s, one-third of long-term coal miners suffered from coal workers’ pneumoconiosis or black lung. Even with the coal mining regulations, cases of these illnesses began to rise drastically in the late 1990s. Researchers are expressing concern that some cases of the new generation of severe black […]
Bull Mountains Mine No. 1
The Bull Mountains Coal Mine No. 1 occupies an area of about 1725 acres in the Bull Mountains of southcentral Montana, in Musselshell and Yellowstone counties, 20 miles southeast of Roundup, Montana. Signal Peak Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Global Mining Group, owns the mine. It has been operating intermittently since it opened in 1907. The mine […]
Tunnel Ridge Coal Mine
Tunnel Ridge underground coal mine occupies an area of 38 km2 in Wheeling, West Virginia. Tunnel Ridge, LLC, a subsidiary of Alliance Resource Partners LP operates the Tunnel Ridge Mine. The mine’s construction began in 2008, development mining began in 2010, and longwall mining operations in May 2012. It operates under the MSHA ID: 4608864 and […]
MC #1 and Viking Coal Mines
The MC #1 and Viking mines are part of the Sugar Camp mine complex in Akin and Macedonia, Franklin County, Illinois. They are underground mines covering an area of about 37955 acres and are operated under the MSHA ID 1103189. Each of these mines is operated separately by M-Class Mining LLC and Viking Mine LLC, subsidiaries […]