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Uninsured Motorist Coverage Should Be Extended

Setting the scene: Let’s say you’re driving down the road and another vehicle crosses over the yellow line,swerves into your lane and is about to hit you. As you try to avoid getting hit by the other car, you turn your wheel hard to the right and go off the road and into a tree. […]

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Workers' Compensation

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Why Are Injury Victims Expected To Wait So Long For Recovery?

It has become customary for liability insurance companies to “delay and pay” claims of injury victims in North Carolina. Normally, when a person is injured in an automobile or other accident he or she must wait until the very end of the case to receive compensation from the negligent party’s insurance company. When legitimate questions […]

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Social Security Disability

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Understanding SSA Denial Paperwork

It has finally been recognized that the Social Security Administration needs to provide more detail in denial notices. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that denied claimants sometimes received communications with inconsistent or hard-to-understand information. Medical sources and reports were not clearly linked to how a determination was made. The SSA generally agreed with […]

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Uncategorized

calendar_today June 16, 2009

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SSD and Workers Comp in Utah

Some state legislators will do just about anything to keep their state looking business friendly. A Utah law that reduces workers’ compensation benefits for workers over 65 that receive social security benefits has been ruled unlawful. In most states, only Social Security disability benefits are reduced when the injured worker receives periodic workers’ compensation payments. […]

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Workers' Compensation

calendar_today June 16, 2009

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Winston-Salem Company Offers Hope for Chronic Back Pain Sufferers

Back injury is a frequent cause of concern among many of our clients. There are just so many ligaments, discs, nerves, muscles and tendons. Let’s face it — if your back hurts, you pretty much hurt all over. We recently heard about a new invention called VerteLoc. It’s hailed as a “minimally invasive spine stabilization […]

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Workers' Compensation

calendar_today June 16, 2009

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Inclusive Health

If you do not have a health plan with an employer and if you are looking at higher premiums because of a pre-existing medical condition, you may qualify for the North Carolina Health Insurance Risk Pool (NCHIRP), commonly called Inclusive Health. This individual health plan also helps people whose jobs have been lost due to […]

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Personal Injury

calendar_today May 21, 2009

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Contributory Negligence — How It Can Affect You

Does it matter that North Carolina is one of only four states in our country that supports contributory negligence? What kind of legal jargon is that and what does it mean to you and me? Under current NC law, you cannot get any insurance benefit or claim any compensation as a result of an accident […]

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Workers' Compensation

calendar_today May 9, 2009

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Workers’ Comp and SSD

There’s a bill, co-sponsored by the chairs of the Labor Committees in the New York Senate and Assembly, which is working its way through the legal system that makes sense for permanently totally disabled workers. Bravo to New York for realizing that people who are found by the federal government Social Security Law standards to […]

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Legal Insights & Client Resources

Uninsured Motorist Coverage Should Be Extended

Why Are Injury Victims Expected To Wait So Long For Recovery?

Understanding SSA Denial Paperwork

SSD and Workers Comp in Utah

Winston-Salem Company Offers Hope for Chronic Back Pain Sufferers

Inclusive Health

Contributory Negligence — How It Can Affect You

Workers’ Comp and SSD

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