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Nebraska Upholds Workers Comp Benefits for Being 100% Illegal

06 Jan, 2013 Bob Wilson

On Friday the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision awarding up to $2 million in benefits to an illegal alien who used falsified documents to obtain the job in which he was ultimately […]

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