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Workers' Compensation
- Key Risk + Company Doctor + Light Duty Job = Disaster
- Workers' Comp Adjusters are using private investigators more and more
- What do you really want in your workers' comp claim?
- The Problem with Company Doctors, Part I
- Kid's Chance Golf Tournament
Personal Injury
- Ensign Amendment Fails --- Good News for Malpractice Victims
- City of Charlotte to Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Driver Killed By Falling Tree
- Seat Belts = Safety
- Personal Injury Legal Team Welcomes Laurie Stegall
- Uninsured / Underinsured Motorists Liability Coverage Bill
Social Security Disability
- Update on the SSA Using Electronic Medical Records
- Apply for SSD On Your Computer
- Disability Claims Processing Data
- GAO Follows SSA's Efforts to End Hearings Delays
- Fixing a Broken Mental Health System
General
Firm News
- When the injured worker returned to work he was immediately fired...
- Workers Compensation Neck Surgery case...
- Workers' Compensation: The IC ruled that the employer, who willingly paid the medical claim and workers comp for the employee's foot injury, must also pay for pain management because this injury aggravated the employee's pre-existing fibromyalgia and hypertension and was now considered a chronic condition. Although it is tough to win these claims we can usually do it if we the treating physician will agree that the pre-existing condition is worse now than it was and that this change is due to the worker's comp accident....
- Workers' Compensation: The Industrial Commission denied the employee's claim for temporary partial disability compensation. The Commission ruled that the reduction in wages that our client received was because of problems with the company's workload due to the economy. It was determined that he didn't receive less pay because of his injury or from the less-paying job within the company that he had to take because of the injury....
- Workers' Compensation: The NC Industrial Commission determined that the employer was required to pay our client's medical bills and also continue workers' compensation payments until our client could find a job with his limited physical capabilities. The employer was unable to find work for him at the company and he was fired, which was unacceptable, although it was explained by the employer as happening because of excessive absences....
- Workers' Compensation: The North Carolina Industrial Commission threatened to hold CNA in contempt of court because they refused to authorize the medical tests which would prove that the plaintiff was unable to do his job. This was a classic example of an adjuster getting an opinion from a reliable doctor and then refusing any other evaluation which could help the injured worker....
- Workers Compensation: The North Carolina Industrial Commission held that National Benefits Association had wrongfully denied this claim for more than a year...but only when the Industrial Commission finally heard all the evidence -- that the employer admitted that they knew the plaintiff was hurt, that they had sent him to a doctor but didn't follow his direction, and that there was no way our client could do his job with his severely-injured back....
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission says Liberty Mutual must provide yardcare and housecleaning to an injured brickmason....
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission rules that a restaurant dishwasher who slipped and fell, and was taken straight to an emergency room has proven that he was injured on the job....
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission finds that Diebold and Broadspire MUST pay weekly benefits even after they fired the injured worker from her "light duty" job....
Library
Workers' Compensation
- Psssst! Who's that following you?
- NCIC Form 25T: Mileage Reimbursement form
- Form 28T: Notice of Termination of Compensation by Reason of Trial Return to Work
- Form 33R: Response to Request that Claim Be Assigned for Hearing
- 10 Things Your Insurance Adjuster Won't Tell You (download)
Personal Injury
- Police Report/ Accident Report Samples
- Auto Insurance Declaration Page
- Certificate of Employment
- What to Do in Case of an Auto Accident
- How Uninsured Motorist Insurance protects you in a personal injury claim.
Social Security Disability
- Healthcare Clinics in NC with free service
- Free Clinics in Forsyth County
- Form SSA 3381
- Form SSA 827
- Form SSA 561
General
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- Social Security Disability
- Update on the SSA Using Electronic Medical Records
- Apply for SSD On Your Computer
- Disability Claims Processing Data
- GAO Follows SSA's Efforts to End Hearings Delays
- Fixing a Broken Mental Health System
- America's Best Hospitals
- Hospitals in NC
- No Cost of Living Increase for Social Security Benefits
- Preparing for a Hearing
- Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Added to Compassionate Allowance List
- Claims for Disability Continue to Take More Time
- SSD, SSI Benefits and Same Sex Marriages
- State DDS Jobs Should Be Secure
- SSD and Workers Comp in Utah
- Understanding SSA Denial Paperwork
- Winston-Salem Company Offers Hope for Chronic Back Pain Sufferers
- Inclusive Health: A New Healthcare Plan
- Workers Comp and SSD - Why not in NC?
- New way to diagnosis Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
- Social Security Disability backlogs exist nationally
- Social Security to Start Gathering Medical Records Electronically
- Medicare to Pay For Telemedicine
- Spinal Fusion in Pictures
- A New Insurance Product For Tough Times
- Is Social Security Going Digital?
- Medicare's Benefits Not Always Obvious
- Medicare is Important This Time of Year
- New President's Plan on Disabilities
- One year later, Social Security still doesn't get it.
- Unfortunately, high unemployment rates do not translate into higher disability approval rates.
- Largest Private Disability Insurer Found Fraudulent
- Social Security Administration adds Compassionate Allowances
- Workers' Compensation
- Key Risk + Company Doctor + Light Duty Job = Disaster
- Workers' Comp Adjusters are using private investigators more and more
- What do you really want in your workers' comp claim?
- The Problem with Company Doctors, Part I
- Kid's Chance Golf Tournament
- Are Company Doctors Accurately Reporting Workplace Injuries?
- Raleigh Office Adds John Landry
- Kristin Packard Joins Charlotte Office
- Todd Oxner on Board of Directors at WILG
- COBRA Health Insurance Subsidy Update
- Devin Thomas Selected for Dispute Resolution Council
- Tom Clare Achieves Board Certification Designation
- OTP Lawyers speaking around the state.
- Some Workers' Comp lawyers are ripping off injured workers
- Worst North Carolina Industrial Commission ruling I've seen lately
- North Carolina Supreme Court rules against injured workers
- US Government bails out AIG
- The North Carolina Industrial Commission has raised the mileage reimbursement rates
- What's a fair amount to pay your workers' comp attorney?
- Why does the North Carolina Industrial Commission make an injured worker look for work even when they are on Social Security Disability?
- What drives me crazy after nearly 15 years of doing workers' comp?
- Personal Injury
- Ensign Amendment Fails --- Good News for Malpractice Victims
- City of Charlotte to Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Driver Killed By Falling Tree
- Seat Belts = Safety
- Personal Injury Legal Team Welcomes Laurie Stegall
- Uninsured / Underinsured Motorists Liability Coverage Bill
- Personal Injury Team Wins Jury Verdict
- Getting an outside appraisal for your damaged vehicle value
- Update: Product Liability Bill
- Driving and Texting Can Kill You
- Medical Malpractice Case Punishes the Whistleblowers
- Product Liability Bill News
- Uninsured Motorist Coverage Should Be Extended
- Why are injury victims expected to wait so long for a recovery?
- Update on Contributory Negligence
- Contributory Negligence -- How It Can Affect You
- General
- Our first workers compensation, personal injury and social security office on the coast
- Oxner Thomas + Permar moves into the NASCAR Plaza
- Richardson Serves the Community at the 2009 Wyndham Championship
- Greensboro Office Expands and Relocates
- OTP Now in Hickory
- Fayetteville Office Opens
- Welcome to the OTP website
Practice Areas
- North Carolina Workers' Compensation Attorneys and North Carolina Work
- North Carolina Personal Injury Lawyer and Winston-Salem Car Accident Attorney
- North Carolina Social Security Disability Lawyer and North Carolina SSI Attorney
News
- When the injured worker returned to work he was immediately fired
- Workers Compensation Neck Surgery case
- Workers' Compensation: The IC ruled that the employer, who willingly paid the medical claim and workers comp for the employee's foot injury, must also pay for pain management because this injury aggravated the employee's pre-existing fibromyalgia and hypertension and was now considered a chronic condition. Although it is tough to win these claims we can usually do it if we the treating physician will agree that the pre-existing condition is worse now than it was and that this change is due to the worker's comp accident.
- Workers' Compensation: The Industrial Commission denied the employee's claim for temporary partial disability compensation. The Commission ruled that the reduction in wages that our client received was because of problems with the company's workload due to the economy. It was determined that he didn't receive less pay because of his injury or from the less-paying job within the company that he had to take because of the injury.
- Workers' Compensation: The NC Industrial Commission determined that the employer was required to pay our client's medical bills and also continue workers' compensation payments until our client could find a job with his limited physical capabilities. The employer was unable to find work for him at the company and he was fired, which was unacceptable, although it was explained by the employer as happening because of excessive absences.
- Workers' Compensation: The North Carolina Industrial Commission threatened to hold CNA in contempt of court because they refused to authorize the medical tests which would prove that the plaintiff was unable to do his job. This was a classic example of an adjuster getting an opinion from a reliable doctor and then refusing any other evaluation which could help the injured worker.
- Workers Compensation: The North Carolina Industrial Commission held that National Benefits Association had wrongfully denied this claim for more than a year...but only when the Industrial Commission finally heard all the evidence -- that the employer admitted that they knew the plaintiff was hurt, that they had sent him to a doctor but didn't follow his direction, and that there was no way our client could do his job with his severely-injured back.
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission says Liberty Mutual must provide yardcare and housecleaning to an injured brickmason.
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission rules that a restaurant dishwasher who slipped and fell, and was taken straight to an emergency room has proven that he was injured on the job.
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission finds that Diebold and Broadspire MUST pay weekly benefits even after they fired the injured worker from her "light duty" job.
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission rules against The Hartford Insurance Company and holds that a nurse who was still on her employer's property when she was hit by a car is within the course and scope of her employment and entitled to workers' compensation benefits.
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission: The Vocational Rehabilitation Professional, from Page Rehabilitation, had a "strained interpretation of suitable employment and the duration of her proposed job search raises serious questions as to whether her objective was to benefit plaintiff or defendants."
- Workers Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission shows we beat both AIG and Zurich in proving that this truck driver for a brick company had two separate accidents which both injured his knee, ultimately disabling him.
- Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission sanctions against the insurance company for failing to accept a claim when our client, an insulation installer, was in an auto accident.
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: A restaurant manager who suffered gunshot wounds in a hold-up is entitled to a yard worker and a housecleaner because he cannot do much of his own work anymore.
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: Hartford Insurance wrongfully used a "pre-existing condition" as an excuse to deny an automotive tech's workers' comp claim
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: Adult daughters of this injured Lexington Memorial Hospital worker were entitled to compensation for taking care of their mother.
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: Family members are entitled to be paid for providing attendant care.
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: In this case with Kemper Insurance company the NCIC found that the employer, Cintas, "schemed" to fire plaintiff while she was on light duty.
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: When are you "on the job" to be covered by workers' compensation?
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: Facing down the Argonaut workers' compensation adjuster in a disputed carpal tunnel case
- North Carolina Industrial Commission: OTP Lawyers stepped in to save an injured plumber whose original lawyer couldn't get the job done against Key Risk.
Case Results
- Workers' Compensation
- The Workers' Comp Adjuster Denied a Perfectly Legitimate Claim.
- An Example of a Workers' Comp Adjuster Manipulating the Recorded Statement.
- How a Functional Capacities Evaluation Can Wreck a Claim.
- What Can Go Wrong with a Return to Light Duty Work.
- If You Go Back to Work on Light Duty, Do You Think the Adjuster Will Let the Doctor Take You Out Again?
- A Favorite Trick of Adjuster's: Send the Notice They Want to Cut Your Checks to the Wrong Address. That Way You Cannot Object to It.
- Don't Assume the Workers' Comp Adjuster is Paying You the Right Amount.
- A Real-Life Example of an Adjuster Misusing Vocational Rehabilitation.
- This Illustrates the Options You Have When You Reach Maximum Medical Improvement.
Document Library
- Workers' Compensation
- Psssst! Who's that following you?
- NCIC Form 25T: Mileage Reimbursement form
- Form 28T: Notice of Termination of Compensation by Reason of Trial Return to Work
- Form 33R: Response to Request that Claim Be Assigned for Hearing
- 10 Things Your Insurance Adjuster Won't Tell You (download)
- Deny & Buy (download book)
- How Much Will I Pay for A Workers' Compensation Attorney
- Workers' Compensation: What to do in the case of an on-the-job injury
- Who's Paying For Your Gas?
- Here are seven things which let a workers' compensation adjuster know she'll probably win your claim
- Ten Ways to Wreck Your Workers' Compensation Claim, Online Edition
- Five Ways Doctors Can Hurt Your Case
- Form 18, An Employee's Report of Injury
- Form 19, Employer's Report of Injury
- Form 21, Agreement for Compensation for Disability
- Form 22, Statement of Days Worked and Earnings of Injured Employee
- Form 24, Application to Terminate or Suspend Payment of Compensation
- Form 25C, Authorization for Rehabilitation Professional to Obtain Medical Records of Current Treatment
- Form 25P, Itemized Statement of Charges for Drugs
- Form 25R, Evaluation for Permanent Impairment
- Form 28, Return to Work Report
- Form 28B, Report of Employer or Carrier/Administrator of Compensation and Medical Compensation Paid and Notice of Right to Additional Medical Compensation
- Form 25C, Report of Employer or Carrier/Administrator of Compensation and Medical Compensation Paid Pursuant to a Compromise Settlement Agreement
- Form 28U, Employee’s Request That Compensation Be Reinstated After Unsuccessful Trial Return to Work
- Form 33, Request That Claim Be Assigned for Hearing
- Form 60, Employer’s Admission of Employee’s Right to Compensation Pursuant to G.S. §97-18(b)
- Form 61, Denial of Workers’ Compensation Claim
- Form 63, Notice to Employee of Payment of Compensation Without Prejudice (G.S. §97-18(d)) or Payment of Medical Compensation Without Prejudice
- Form 90, Report of Earnings
- Workers’ Compensation Medical Status Questionnaire.
- An Eleventh Way to Wreck a Workers' Comp Claim
- How the North Carolina Legislature Made It Worse to Be an Injured Worker
- Nine Steps to How We Work
- Here's A Trap Workers' Comp Adjuster Have Been Setting Lately
- Eight Steps to Better Treatment with Your Workers' Comp Doctor
- The Dreaded Functional Capacities Evaluation
- Eight Misconceptions About Workers' Compensation
- My Employer Says They Don't Have Workers Comp Insurance
- What is the Present Value of Money and Why Should I Care?
- Workers' Comp Tips
- Personal Injury
- Police Report/ Accident Report Samples
- Auto Insurance Declaration Page
- Certificate of Employment
- What to Do in Case of an Auto Accident
- How Uninsured Motorist Insurance protects you in a personal injury claim.
- Social Security Disability
- Healthcare Clinics in NC with free service
- Free Clinics in Forsyth County
- Form SSA 3381
- Form SSA 827
- Form SSA 561
- Form SSA 3441
- Form HA 501
- What People Applying For Disability Need To Know
- Five Social Security Disability Tips
- What on Earth is a Workers' Compensation Offset?
- General
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Workers' Compensation
- What's the definition of Average Weekly Wage?
- What's medical compensation?
- How is the term "health care provider" defined in the Workers Compensation Act?
- How is the term "health care provider" defined in the Workers Compensation Act?
- Can an employer cancel an injured employee's health insurance while he or she is receiving workers' comp benefits?
- When will my Workers Comp checks come in the mail?
- What is a Mediated Settlement Agreement?
- How many days of work do I need to miss in order for Workers Comp to start paying me?
- What should I do if my employer tries to get me to take sick days instead of making a workers comp claim?
- Do I need to pay back the money that I get from my workers' compensation claim to anyone?
- Will I be required to pay taxes on my Workers' Compensation settlement money?
- What is workers' compensation fraud?
- What items are used in coming up with a workers' compensation settlement?
- Can I get a second opinion in my workers' compensation case?
- No doctor will see me because I have a workers' compensation claim? What do I do?
- What questions should I ask a workers' compensation attorney in North Carolina?
- Are there driving limitations while I'm on light duty?
- What is a workers' compensation trial like?
- What is a "Trial Return to Work" in workers' compensation claims?
- How is a knee injury compensated under Workers' Compensation?
- When do you settle a workers' compensation claim?
- What do you do when you receive a Form 90?
- Are there any special rules in workers' compensation if you work out of town?
- Do private investigators follow you when you're on workers' compensation?
- What do I do if the insurance company gives me a bad check?
- I'm on Social Security Disability. Will workers' compensation make me keep looking for work?
If I am in a company vehicle and there is an auto accident do I have a workers' compensation claim under North Carolina law or is it a personal injury claim?
- How does Workers’ Compensation handle neck injuries?
- Can the adjuster get a second opinion on my rating?
- What do I do if my workers' comp case is denied?
- How do I settle a workers’ compensation case?
- What is a Workers’ Compensation Insurance Certificate?
- What forms are used to settle or close my Workers’ Comp case?
- Can I work and still receive Workers’ Compensation benefits?
- What can I do if my permanent partial disability rating is too low?
- Do I get a jury trial in Workers’ Compensation?
- What are the Workers’ Comp laws?
- Is there a difference between Workers’ Comp in North Carolina and other states?
- I work out of town a lot and get extra money for meals and lodging. Is that part of my average weekly wage?
- Are tips part of my average weekly wage?
- Who must carry Workers’ Comp Insurance?
- What is the proper name for Workers’ Compensation?
- What is workers' compensation?
- How do I settle a workers' compensation case?
- Does it matter if I got my pay in cash?
- My workers' comp claim is denied. How long will it take to win it?
- How do I get my day in court in a Workers’ Comp claim?
- What are Workers’ Compensation Disability Ratings?
- What do I do if I have a complaint against my workers' compensation doctor?
- Are robberies or assaults covered by Workers’ Compensation?
- How does Workers’ Compensation rate my feet?
- How does Workers’ Compensation rate my shoulders?
- How does Workers’ Compensation rate my wrists?
- How much will my workers’ compensation settlement be?
- What is a Clincher?
- What is a Board Certified Specialist? Why does it matter?
- Who must carry Workers' Comp Insurance?
- What is the right way to resolve an appeal of Workers' Compensation with my employer?
- What is the North Carolina Industrial Commission?
- What am I entitled to if I am injured on the job?
- What is a compensable workplace injury?
- I am already receiving benefits. Why do I need an attorney?
- How are my benefits calculated?
- Why can’t I pick my own doctor?
- What is a permanent partial impairment rating?
- My employer hasn’t told me any of this. What are their responsibilities to me when I am injured on the job?
- What deadlines should I be aware of?
- I was injured on the job weeks ago and reported it to my employer but I haven’t received anything yet. When can I expect my benefits to start?
- What should I do if I am injured on the job?
- Personal Injury
- Do I own my medical records and is my doctor required by law to give them to me?
- What can you tell me about a police report?
- My attorney wants to see my insurance dec page. What in the world is that?
- What happens if the insurance company says my damaged car or truck is a "total loss?"
- What is a Pain & Suffering Diary?
- Will the money from my settlement come directly to me?
- What happens with the proceeds when a settlement is for a minor child?
- What should I bring to my personal injury consultation?
- If I'm involved in an accident, what should I do?
- What is an accident reconstructionist?
- What should I say to the adjuster?
- My injury from a car wreck was a couple months ago, and I'm not getting what I was promised from the other driver's insurance company. Is it too late for me to get a lawyer?
- Social Security Disability
- I was granted disability benefits at the hearing level, but I was wondering how long it will take for me to get a check. My lawyer says I won, but I would like to know more about the timing.
- I have a terminal illness and was told that I can get Social Security benefits. Is this correct?
- Will I get more money if my disability gets worse? Should I reapply at that time?
- What happens to my Disability benefits when I reach retirement age?
- Can I continue to receive benefits if I go back to work?
- What can you tell me about an Expedited Reinstatement (EXR)?
- Do I qualify for SSD since I am partially disabled?
- If I am awarded disability benefits, how long will I receive them?
- How do I document my disability? What does that mean?
- My SSD claim was denied. How long do I have to make an appeal?
- Who decides how much money I'll be able to get in Social Security benefits? Is it based on my type of disability?
- Since it often takes so long to get approved for Disability benefits, can I get them paid out to me retroactively once I'm approved?
- What is date last insured (DLI)?
- What can I do on-line on my computer with Social Security Disability?
- I was disabled and unable to work for a few years, but I didn't file for disability benefits. I am healthy and working again now. Can I attempt to get disability payments for the time period I couldn't work?
- Not only am I disabled, but I also have a terminal illness that prevents me from being able to work. Can I still get disability benefits?
- Can you tell me more about Compassionate Allowance?
- If I get disabled and already have private disability insurance, will that reduce my SSD payment benefits?
- What is a bench decision?
- Can creditors get any part of my Social Security Disability benefits?
- I've been told that I can only do sedentary work because of my disability. What does that mean? Will I not get SSD benefits?
- How do I know if the Social Security Administration will consider my specific disease as a disability?
- What does a Vocational Expert do for my case and who hires one?
- I received a notice that although I am currently getting SSD benefits, I will soon need to participate in a Continuing Disability Review. What does that mean and should I be concerned?
- What is a SSI Redetermination?
- Can I claim Social Security Disability benefits since I have fibromyalgia and am unable to earn a living?
- As an unemployed recipient of SSD benefits, can I still get a reduction on my COBRA health insurance premiums?
- If a person has a drug addiction or a problem with alcohol, can he or she still get SSD benefits?
- What can you tell me about an Unsuccessful Work Attempt (UWA)?
- What can I expect at my first meeting with my attorney?
- What does my old job’s skill level have to do with me being approved for disability?
- What is a disability?
- How does the SSA evaluate mental impairments?
- How does the SSA define work activity?
- What is Residual Functional Capacity?
- What is a medical expert?
- I receive SSD benefits. Should I get the one-time $250 stimulus check from the government this year?
- Does my age help or hurt my application for SSD?
- Can I only get Social Security Disability if I have paid into the Social Security system?
- What determines if I have a hearing with a judge face to face or if it's a video hearing where we're not even in the same room or town?
- Should I apply for Social Security Disability benefits if I have never been able to work?
- What is SSI?
- In order to qualify for Social Security Disability, do I need to have had a work-related injury?
- How can I find the nearest Social Security office so I can file my claim?
- Will going back to work for one day wreck my social security claim?
- What will happen to my SSD claim if I die before it is settled?
- In order to get Social Security Disability, do I have to be permanently disabled?
- I am currently using sick leave while I'm unable to work. Do I need to wait until my sick time is up before I file for Social Security Disability?
How does a person apply for Social Security Disability?
How do you appeal when an application is denied?
- How do you appeal a denied Reconsideration?
- What happens at a hearing?
- Can I get Social Security Disability benefits and Workers’ Compensation benefits at the same time?
- If I am entitled to Social Security disability benefits and I settle my workers’ compensation claim so that I stop receiving weekly workers’ compensation benefits, do I need to report this change to the Social Security Administration?
- If I am currently getting a workers’ compensation check, doesn’t that show that I am disabled and I should get Social Security disability?
- I still have an open Workers’ Compensation claim and I am also on Social Security Disability. I also have Medicare. Can I just settle my Workers’ Compensation claim and use Medicare to pay for my work injuries?
- If I am not going to draw a full Social Security disability check while I collect weekly Workers’ Compensation benefits, should I still consider applying for Social Security disability?
- Is it easy to apply for Social Security Disability?
- Should my Workers’ Compensation settlement agreement include any special language?
- General
- Will my attorney keep our conversations confidential?
- My employer closed the doors of the company and told us all that we would not be paid for the last two weeks of work and we aren't getting paid for any vacation time that we've earned. This doesn't seem right.
- What is Board Certification? Does it matter?
- Can you lend me money against my case?
- What is Martindale Hubbell?
- Does this law firm handle cases not related to workers' comp?
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FAQs
Workers' Compensation
What's the definition of Average Weekly Wage?
Personal Injury
Do I own my medical records and is my doctor required by law to give them to me?
What can you tell me about a police report?
My attorney wants to see my insurance dec page. What in the world is that?
Social Security Disability
I have a terminal illness and was told that I can get Social Security benefits. Is this correct?
Will I get more money if my disability gets worse? Should I reapply at that time?
General
Will my attorney keep our conversations confidential?
Can you lend me money against my case?
Case Studies
Workers' Compensation
What Can Go Wrong with a Return to Light Duty Work.
How a Functional Capacities Evaluation Can Wreck a Claim.
An Example of a Workers' Comp Adjuster Manipulating the Recorded Statement.