Recent Blog Posts
Does Workers’ Compensation Cover Medical Care for Illnesses and Disease?
Contrary to common belief, workers’ compensation doesn’t just cover injuries or accidents at work. It also covers and protects you from illnesses that you might contract on the job, under certain circumstances. Difficulties With Illnesses Illnesses can present problems in workers’ compensation cases, because part of the requirement in making a workers’ compensation claim… Read More »
Injuries and Getting Workers Compensation When You Work From Home
One of the main requirements when you make a workers compensation claim, is whether or not you are injured while on, or while doing, your job. Often, this is an easy question to answer–for many, it’s clear when you’re working or on the job, and when you are not. But when employees work from… Read More »
How Will Your Medical Bills Get Paid After an Accident?
After an accident when someone is injured, they go to the doctor or medical professional. That’s natural; people want to get better and get out of pain. But that’s not an option for everyone. Many people don’t have the finances or insurance available, to get them the medical help that they need after an… Read More »
Who Gets The Damages in a Wrongful Death Lawsuit?
Wrongful death cases are unlike many other types of personal injury cases, for two main reasons. The first is obvious–death is the most final, permanent and devastating “injury” that someone can have after an accident, and causes ripples of devastation to family members left behind. The other reason is that the person who directly… Read More »
You Can Get Compensation After an Accident…But Why?
When you are in an accident that is caused by someone else, and you are injured, you can get compensation for your injuries. You may know that. But why? Why does the law even allow this? It seems like a funny question–but it’s one that people in the general public often ask. What’s the… Read More »
Challenging the Vocational Expert in Your Disability Hearing
Getting social security disability requires that you meet a number of legal requirements and hurdles. But one of the most difficult to overcome is the requirement to show that there are no jobs in the national economy that you could perform, with your disabilities. You can go into your social security disability hearing and… Read More »
Why Would a Negligent Defendant Admit Fault in Your Injury Case?
In a typical personal injury case, where you are claiming that someone else did something wrong or negligent to cause you injury, you would expect that the other side would deny that they did anything wrong. You would think that they would fight you and say that they either did nothing wrong, or that… Read More »
Who is Liable When Children are Injured in Day or After School Care?
If you are a working parent, day care, or child care, are necessities. Whether your child is in day care because he or she is too young for full time school, or whether your child is in after-school care, child care centers help parents get to work, allowing them to earn the living necessary… Read More »
Road Rage Accidents and Injuries, and Insurance Coverage: Here’s How it Works
Road rage is seen by many as an act of violence, and, if it gets out of hand, can be a criminal act. And when you’re injured by someone as a result of a road rage incident, you may not know whether or not you can get compensation for your injuries. But in fact,… Read More »
What if You’re From Another State, but Were Injured in Florida?
Here in Florida, we get a lot of visitors, both for pleasure and business. But if someone visiting or vacationing here is injured here in Florida, and they eventually return home, they may find themselves in a situation where they cannot sue the negligent defendant in whatever state they are from–they must come here,… Read More »
