{"id":2557,"date":"2018-11-06T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esperaiellolawgroup.com\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:57:47","slug":"attorney-timothy-esper-quoted-in-the-building-tradesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiellolawgroup.com\/news\/attorney-timothy-esper-quoted-in-the-building-tradesman","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Timothy Esper Quoted In The Building Tradesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reductions in workers compensation benefits imposed by Republican state legislators and Gov. Rick Snyder in 2011 are working exactly as they intended.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Esper, a 40-year veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiellolawgroup.com\/practice-areas\/workers-compensation\">workers&#8217; comp attorney<\/a>, points out that the premium decrease was accomplished by denying or reducing benefits to most injured workers. He said under the rewrite, as applied by Snyder-appointed magistrates and appellate commissioners, injured workers get no weekly comp benefits unless they can prove, for each and every week of lost time, that they were making a &#8220;good faith effort&#8221; to find work.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganbuildingtrades.org\/the-building-tradesman-newspaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Building Tradesman Newspaper<\/a>, established in 1952, has a circulation of about 45,000 and is one of the oldest labor union publications in the country. It is a broadsheet newspaper containing information about construction, political, safety and feature news of interest to Michigan\u2019s unionized construction workforce.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aiellolawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/the-building-tradesman-vol67-no22.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to Download The Builders Tradesman &#8211; Volume 67 No. 22 &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reductions in workers compensation benefits imposed by Republican state legislators and Gov. Rick Snyder in 2011 are working exactly as they intended. Tim Esper, a 40-year veteran workers&#8217; comp attorney, points out that the premium decrease was accomplished by denying or reducing benefits to most injured workers. He said under the rewrite, as applied by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Attorney Timothy Esper Quoted In The Building Tradesman - Social Security Disability Attorneys | Workers Compensation Attorneys | Elder Law Attorneys | Aiello Law Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Attorney Timothy Esper Quoted In The Building Tradesman. The Building Tradesman Newspaper, established in 1952, has a circulation of about 45,000 and is one of the oldest labor union publications in the country. 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