Claims stemming from a workplace shooting last week at a beer distributorship in Connecticut may become the largest workers' compensation payout in the state for an incident of its kind, the Hartford Courant reported.
In a story by Matthew Sturdevant, the Hartford Courant quotes John Mastropietro, chairman of Connecticut's Workers Compensation Commission, as stating that the incident at Hartford Distributors Inc. has the potential to surpass the payout from a 1998 incident at the Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Newington, Conn., simply because the more recent event involves more people.
In 1998, the story notes, an employee armed with a gun and a knife killed four workers and then himself.
In the Hartford Distributors incident, eight people were killed and two were injured. Family members, the story adds, are eligible to file claims payments from the company's workers' compensation insurer, The Hanover Insurance Group.
Families of the workers have one year from the shooting to file workers' compensation claims, and the payment would be based on a weekly average of wages, bonuses and other earnings in the 52 weeks before the shooting, according to the article. "The compensation rate is 75 percent of the average weekly wage after deductions for Social Security and income tax, which will differ for each employee," the Hartford Courant adds.
To read the full story, see the Hartford Courant story "Workers' Compensation In Warehouse Shootings Could Break Records".
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