What happens when a major journalism program runs a program without interviewing both sides? You get something like what “60 Minutes” aired in early October in “Disability, USA.” It’s one of the media’s favorite topics, “exposing” disability fraud on the part of the claimant. But how much truth is there to the allegations made on [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.With football season upon us, I would like to use football to explain some common situations that employees face. I get a lot of calls from white-collar professionals who have long careers with a company but then are laid off a few months [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.In most instances, an injured worker cannot sue her employer for a workplace injury. However, if an injury results from an employer's reckless, intentional, or illegal action, an injured worker can bring a separate claim against the employer directly. An employer's violation of [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.I found a recent story from California very troubling. The nation’s largest assisted living company agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle claims for underpayment and mistreatment of the workers' who take care of the elderly. Lack of proper overtime pay, lack of [...]
Lately there’s been a lot of buzz surrounding a drug known as ketamine. Some workers'’ compensation patients with chronic, neuropathic pain [i.e. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)] are lauding ketamine as a new wonder drug and a few pain clinics are now prescribing ketamine therapy to treat certain pain conditions [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Susan C. Andrews, from Causey Law Firm. You hear it all over the place these days: there are lots of people out there who lied and cheated to get Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits. I’m here to tell you that is a myth. You don’t have to drill [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Gelman, from Jon L Gelman LLC.Over 140 governments meeting at a United Nations forum in Geneva have agreed to a global, legally-binding treaty to address mercury, a notorious heavy metal with significant health and environmental effects. The Minamata Convention on Mercury – named after a city in Japan [...]
Many workers'’ compensation claims arise when an employee is injured in an automobile accident while on the clock for the employer. In these cases, the injured worker sometimes has two claims - a personal injury claim and a workers'’ compensation claim. If another driver was at fault for the collision, it’s possible for the injured [...]
Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy TaylorMayberry was a small town, loosely based on Mount Airy, N.C., the hometown of actor Andy Griffith, who played the part of Sheriff Andy Taylor. Mayberry was a slow, sleepy town where city slickers came by occasionally and Andy or Deputy Barney Fife or some other innocent person smoked them [...]