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Welcome to the Hawaii Injured Workers Alliance |
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The Hawaii Injured Workers Alliance (HIWA) is an organization dedicated to adequately responding to the mistreatment of thousands of hard-working injured, disabled and displaced workers in Hawaii, who suffer the financial and personal hardships created by industrial accident and occupational disease.
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The U.S. House of Representatives today rejected a Senate bill that would have averted a 27.4 percent Medicare physician payment cut scheduled for Jan. 1 and extended an expiring payroll tax reduction and unemployment insurance benefits. The net result was to leave 2012 Medicare payment rates in limbo.
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 What Is Meant by "Exclusive Remedy"
Workers' compensation statutes in most states limit a worker's remedies for work-related injuries to a workers' comp claim against the employer. Except in narrow circumstances, such as where the employer actually intends to cause harm to the worker, no matter how egregious the employer's conduct the worker's sole remedy against the employer will be through the workers' compensation system.
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Written by Joseph F. Zuiker
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We often pat ourselves on the back because we think we live in Paradise. But for hundreds of seriously injured workers and their families, final hearing backlogs at labor agencies make them nothing more than "Hostages in Paradise".
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 Most people have never been aboard a freighter, and thus aren't aware that a ship can be a very dangerous place to work. Seamen may suffer grave injury while at sea, and it may take days before they can get the medical care they need. The Jones Act was enacted in recognition of the special circumstances and dangers faced by maritime workers.
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