Wow, did our recent sleep apnea post about the police officer who was fired strike a chord — don’t know how many folks wrote in, mostly about sleep apnea itself and not about the employment law aspect of the matter!
From the nature of the comments, it seems like this serious medical condition has been
Our post the other day on the case of a fired police officer with sleep apnea awarded $1 million brought in a ton of comments — about the dangers of sleep apnea and how it can easily go undiagnosed and untreated.
So we want to post this comment — for all to read — from
Our recent post on sleep apnea as a disability brought some good reader questions and comments which bear posting. One, from a Mexican lawyer, and a second, from a Canadian talent officer, ask some good questions about American laws — does anyone want to try responding?
The last brings Shakespeare (Shakespeare?) to bear on
This post is no joke: not as a matter of law or of health.
Law360 has reported that after a jury verdict, a federal court has just ordered a Kansas city to pay almost $1 million to a former police officer who fell asleep on the job numerous times and was then diagnosed with severe
Equip for Equality, which is an “independent, private, not-for-profit organization designated by the governor in 1985 to implement the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) System in Illinois,” has just announced that it has filed a lawsuit in Illinois against a hotel that fired a front desk clerk with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease