re: #3 Obdicut

re: #6 lawhawk

Obdi, paying the costs of medical care for work-related injuries is a big part of what workers comp does.

Hawk, if the causation issue is unclear, wouldn’t the responder’s bill have the same issues? That is, if the medical condition isn’t related to time on the pile, then would the new bill respond?

My understanding is that the vast majority of the people on the pile were city employees of one stripe or another, or they were employees of the four contractors the city hired to remove the pile. So any work-related injuries any of those folks suffered would be appropriately paid under workers comp. I don’t know where your “hundreds dead” stat comes from, but I have only heard of one, and the medical causation on that individual wasn’t certain, either.

Understand, I am sympathetic to these people, and seeing them used as pawns is upsetting. But I suspect that the reality of this situation is more complicated than has been depicted so far.