Topic: Disabilities
AP News | 2009-11-04 18:52:02
<div id="subtitle">Montana high court rules workers' compensation can be cut off when recipients reach retirement</div><div><p>The Montana Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off workers' compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-04 17:00:55
<div><p>In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.</p><p>Disabled people are seldom taken care of by institutions here; mostly they are either left to their own devices on ...
AP News | 2009-10-07 17:05:50
<div id="subtitle">Alabama to unveil new statue of Helen Keller to be installed in US Capitol</div><div><p>Alabama installed the first statue honoring a disabled person in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, unveiling a bronze of a 7-year-old Helen Keller at her moment of epiphany when she solved ...
AP News | 2009-10-01 21:16:44
<div id="subtitle">Gov't study finds disabled people are more likely to be victims of violent crimes</div><div><p>Disabled people are 1.5 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than nondisabled people, according to a government study.</p><p>The study on ...
