Tag: Mardi Gras Casino

Union, Mardi Gras Casino to Meet Over Insurance

The United Steelworkers says it plans to meet with representatives of Mardi Gras Casino and Resort to try to head off a possible strike.

Members of USW Local 14614-F9 rejected the Nitro resort’s insurance offer during negotiations Friday and authorized a strike. The negotiations began in early August.

Union local President Ron Brady tells the Charleston Gazette-Mail that a meeting with the casino is set for Tuesday.

At issue is a proposed increase in employees’ insurance premiums.

The union says the company also wants to eliminate its ability to bargain over future employee insurance changes and costs.

Brady says the union wants 80 percent of health premiums covered by the company and wants language removed that would let the casino change portions of the workers’ health insurance.

W.Va. Supreme Court Says Jury Should Hear Casino Case

The West Virginia Supreme Court says a jury should decide whether a man was trespassing when he strayed off the sidewalk and injured himself at a Cross Lanes casino.

It reverses a Kanawha County judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that the man was trespassing when he left the sidewalk and fell off a 6-foot retaining wall.

In 2013, David Ragonese filed a lawsuit against the Racing Corporation of West Virginia, which does business as the Mardi Gras Casino.

The Charleston Daily Mail reports that Ragonese alleged the casino was negligent in protecting guests from the retaining wall.

The casino’s attorneys argued that Ragonese knew the wall was there and was trespassing when he walked off the sidewalk and down the hill that led to the wall.

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