<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c1acb675-a008-4b2d-a207-b14a9ec7ff46/7866697B-7B8A-4EA6-9115-6F56FD0746DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://abcnews.go.com/US/travis-chimp-owner-injury-damages-subject-workmans-comp/story?id=8840129" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/travis-chimp-owner-injury-damages-subject-workmans-comp/story?id=8840129" style="font-size: 11px;">abcnews.go.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/US/travis-chimp-owner-injury-damages-subject-workmans-comp/story?id=8840129"><P> The owner of a 200-pound chimp named Travis who went berserk and <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/travis-chimp-owner-injury-damages-subject-workmans-comp/GMA/story?id=7012523&page=1">ripped the face off</A> of the owner's friend has enraged some by trying to avoid a $50 million lawsuit, claiming the crippling attack should be treated instead as a workman's compensation claim. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/US/travis-chimp-owner-injury-damages-subject-workmans-comp/story?id=8840129"><P> If a judge agrees, it would mean <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7594407&page=1">Charla Nash</A> – who was blinded in the attack, has difficulty walking and can only eat through a straw – would not be entitled to receive any money for pain, suffering, humiliation or loss of enjoyment of life, which usually makes up the largest part of any civil award. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/US/travis-chimp-owner-injury-damages-subject-workmans-comp/story?id=8840129"><P> The legal strategy may have some merit, said Joseph Little, a professor emeritus at the University of Florida Levin School of Law and a specialist in workers' compensation issues. He said the argument might prevail if lawyers can prove that there was a regular employment relationship between Nash and Travis' owner Sandra Herold, and <A target="external" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7592618&page=1"> taking care of the chimp</A> was part of those duties. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7866697B-7B8A-4EA6-9115-6F56FD0746DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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