Opt-Out Laws Cut Workers Comp Claim Losses, Shift Costs To Taxpayers

Bryan Green said he was checking to see whether yellow ink was being applied by a giant printing press when the machine grabbed his right hand a year ago in September. Green’s hand was mangled and bleeding, with finger bone showing, by the time he was able to remove it from the press at Johnson Bryce Inc. in Memphis. A 37-year-old father of three, Air Force veteran and rapper known as Pryme Ape, Green said he lost his East Memphis house and fell behind in child support after a workers’ compensation claim for his injury was denied.