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Terrible injury. Failure to protect workers and a resulting permanent injury that will limit a person for the rest of their life should be subject to workers’ compensation benefits and fines.
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Making Use of Your Recorded Statement
Use of recorded statements is an effective and cost-efficient tool of discovery for members of the claim management team. Before you take a recorded statement of an injured worker, a member of the claim management team needs to understand the legal implications. As with most things in workers’ compensation cases, it is important to understand […]
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Explains how the insurance company will use your statement against you. Make sure that you talk with an experienced lawyer before you give any recorded statements to the insurance company.
If you’re terminally ill, you still must wait for Social Security benefits | cleveland.com
Sens. Sherrod Brown and John Barrasso want terminally ill patients to get benefits while they can.
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It is true that you must wait 5 months to get paid disability benefits. You must also wait many months for Social Security to determine whether or not you are disabled.
Court Backs Workers Comp Ruling for Assaulted Nebraska Nurse
The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a workers’ compensation ruling requiring a Kearney hospital to pay the salary of a former nurse who says she’s unable
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I think the result would be the same in Illinois. 3 assaults and extreme PTSD would lead one to believe that it is difficult to return to work.
Complaining and Social Security Disability
Sometimes it is important to be a complainer.
In Social Security Disability it is very important to complain to your doctor.
If you do not tell your doctor about your problems, limitations and side effects of medications then you will most likely lose your disability case.
Complaining means explaining how often you have pain, how it restricts you and how severe it is.
For instance, I have low back pain that starts out moderately and reaches severe pain by noon. This happens every day. I have to lay down for 3 to 4 hours of the day. My medications make me very sleepy and I fall asleep most afternoons for two hours.
Do not go to the doctor and tell her that you are fine if your are in pain.
Do not tell the doctor that your medications are helping you if this is not true.
Do not fail to tell the doctor that you have side effects from your medications if this is true.
In other words, if your medical records do reflect your ongoing pain and limitations then you will lose your case.
Do not be the person who says I should have won my case but I forgot to tell my doctor everything.
Questions about how to win your case? Feel free to contact Illinois Social Security Disability Lawyer Dirk May at 309-827-4371.