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Thursday December 04, 2008 · 6:39 AM PST

2008/12/04 · 06:39

You would think that 8 years of Bush would rendered me incapable of being truly appalled, but the management of and Specialty Risk Services, the California Workmens Comp insurer for Dollar Tree indicate otherwise. (A correction that it is SRS, not Dollar Tree, who is contesting)

Firm denies workers' comp in racial killing

Taneka Talley was stabbed to death in March 2006 while she was working as a clerk at a Dollar Tree store in Fairfield. Her killer's only motive, prosecutors say, is that she was African American.

That's also the reason the store's workers' compensation insurer is denying $250,000 in death benefits to Talley's 11-year-old son.

The boy's grandmother, the child's legal guardian, said Specialty Risk Services is taking the position that a racially motivated killing is personal, not work-related - even though the man charged with killing Talley had never met her before....

So, now these folks want to stiff her son, now in 6th grade, who would be the beneficiary of the payout.
[on edit]OK, you win.

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