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. NEW DELHI (The Times of India), October 7, 2008: A woman whose kidneys were damaged due to wrong treatment at a nursing home has been awarded a compensation of Rs 700,000 by a consumer court which held her doctor guilty of deficiency in service while performing a kidney stone removal operation.

I’m a fan of numbers, but I try not to get too wrapped up in them.  They’re good markers, but the main point is to drive through with them and continue improving them.  They can go up and down and really frustrate you if you let them.

March 12 (Bloomberg) — Hold on to your assets. The deepest housing decline in 16 years is about to get worse. As many as 1.5 million more Americans may lose their homes, another 100,000 people in housing-related industries could be fired, and an estimated 100 additional subprime mortgage companies

Stories of technology's effects on employees are everywhere.  Employees are using technology to espouse negative views about their employers.  Employers claim rights to their employees' e-mail accounts--both personal and private, even after the employee resigns, as well as employees' text messages

Tampa, Florida - Deputies from the Hillsborough County's Sheriff's office arrested a 23 year old man who admitted shaking a 2-month-old baby. Javaurian Vonshae Saffold was arrested on Monday and charged with aggravated child abuse. He is being detained at Orient Road Jail without bail.

The Georgia Supreme Court has allowed an Atlanta couple’s lawsuit against Wyeth to proceed, upholding a first-of-its-kind ruling by an appellate court that had drawn fierce opposition from the vaccine industry, The Augusta Chronicle reports.

Now’s the time to huddle with Payroll and decide whether your company falls under Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code — the section that deals with deferred-compensation plans and agreements. There’s a January 1 hard deadline for all companies, and many don’t even know they’re subject to 409A.

First suit filed against China’s Sanlu Xie Chuanjiao China Daily China’s Sanlu Group, the dairy giant at the center of the tainted milk powder scandal, might face its first lawsuit from victims, as a local court in Central China’s Henan province will determine whether or not it will accept the first filed case within the week.

Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, has taken some shots as of late. In one instance, it was literal; he was working out in the corporate gym, on the treadmill with a heart monitor on, when someone punched him, knocking him out. He took another beating before Congress, which took him to task for incompetence and mismanagement on a colossal scale.

Accidents at work can happen to anyone and everyone. Statistics state that around 1.6 million accidents take place at work in the United Kingdom in a year. Of that, 10% of the victims have to stay away from work because of the accidents at work, out of them 168 had fatal injuries.