Roofer wins $2.7M for Capital Beltway collision

BY: Barbara Grzincic
POSTED: September 28, 2012
Tags: andrew d. freeman, Baltimore, baltimore city circuit court, brown, disabled, Goldstein Levy LLP, maryland, roofer

A Baltimore jury awarded more than $7 million late Thursday to a learning-disabled roofer who was injured in an automobile accident in December 2005.

Life of Social Security trust funds loses 3 years

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 23, 2012
Tags: benefits, charles blahous, Congress, cost of living adjustment, cuts, disabled, energy prices, finances, Government, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, labor secretary hilda solis, medicare, retirees, robert reischauer, social security, spending, timothy geithner, treasury secretary timothy geithner, trustees

WASHINGTON — High energy prices and an economy that has been slow to rebound are worsening Social Security’s finances, shortening the life of the trust funds that support program by three years, the government said Monday. Those funds will now run dry in 2033, according to a report issued by the trustees that oversee the [...]

Plan would lift wages of home health care workers

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 15, 2011
Tags: Congress, disabled, elderly, Health Care, health service companies, home health care, medication, minimum wage, national policy director, obama administration, overtime, paraprofessional healthcare institute, professions

WASHINGTON — Workers in the home health care industry — one of the country’s fastest growing professions — would be guaranteed minimum wage and overtime protections under new rules proposed Thursday by the Obama administration. The move would boost living standards for nearly 2 million employees who help the elderly and disabled with daily tasks [...]

Maryland advocates rally for alcohol tax for disabled

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 11, 2011
Tags: advocates for the disabled, alcohol tax, alcohol tax increase, Annapolis, disabled, lawmakers, maryland, Maryland General Assembly, maryland state house

ANNAPOLIS — Advocates for the disabled are rallying for an increase in the alcohol tax to help fund community services. Advocates and disabled residents shouted “10 cents makes sense” during the rally Friday in Annapolis in front of the Maryland State House. They are urging lawmakers to approve an increase in the alcohol tax by [...]

Disabled protest possible budget cuts in Annapolis

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 17, 2011
Tags: Annapolis, budget cuts, disabled, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, maryland, maryland house of delegates, medicaid, state house

ANNAPOLIS — Disabled Maryland residents are calling on Gov. Martin O’Malley to avoid budget cuts to Medicaid that they fear could damage community-based support services and force them into nursing homes. About 10 people held a brief protest inside the Maryland State House on Monday. They chanted “We want O’Malley” and “don’t cut our services” [...]

Bitten HIV-positive aide sues school after termination

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: December 15, 2010
Tags: aids, Americans with Disabilities Act, centers for disease control and prevention, disabled, Eastern Shore, federal court, hiv-positive, lawsuit, maryland, termination, The Benedictine School for Exceptional Children, U.S. District Court

A child care provider fired from a private Eastern Shore school for the disabled has sued the facility under the Americans with Disabilities Act, saying administrators terminated him after he disclosed he has HIV. In papers filed by his attorney in federal court, Teran Goldsborough said he made the disclosure in February 2009 after he [...]

Bookworm: A guide to hiring disabled talent

BY: Terri Schlichenmeyer
POSTED: November 11, 2010
Tags: bookworm, business bookworm, disabled, hiring, job, lighthouse international, perfectly able, talent

You’ve got an opening at work, but you’re having a hard time filling it. Obviously, you want the most talented people to work for you. You’ll do what it takes to hire them. So why can’t you find the right person for this job? Could be, says compiler/editor Jim Hasse, that you’re not looking in [...]