By William Powell of Powell & Denny | Published April 27, 2022 | Posted in Workers Compensation | Tagged Tags: accident, car wreck, speeding |
Alabama Car Wreck Lawyers Speed Speed leads to worse accidents, it’s basic physics; an increase in the velocity of an object will increase its kinetic energy and thus its mass resulting in a more powerful crash. Of course, you don’t have to be a physicist to understand how speed can be dangerous. The faster a Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Alabama High Traffic Fatality Statistics Alabama High Traffic Fatality Statistics: The other morning I was reading a newspaper article and noticed a headline stating Alabama was one of the most dangerous States to operate a car in. According to a report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alabama Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In the next “From the Files of Powell and Denny,” I am going to briefly go over the facts from one of our Central Alabama workers compensation trials in St. Clair County, Alabama. Our client was a younger individual who suffered a serious shock at his worksite. Initially Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers How much money am I entitled to receive How much money am I entitled to receive? It is not uncommon for potential clients to ask us this question during our initial meeting to discuss their claim for personal injuries sustained during an automobile accident. We do not try to avoid the Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers What to do after a Wreck According to the Alabama Department of Transportation (Al DOT), in 2020 there was a car wreck reported on average every 3 minutes and 55 seconds. 932 people died on Alabama roads in automobile accidents that year-which breaks down to a traffic accident-related death occurring on Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In this week’s “From the Files of Powell and Denny” blog, I am going to review a Social Security Disability claim we had in North Alabama. Our client lived in Huntsville, AL, and unfortunately suffered from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental illness which affects how a sufferer experiences Read More
Read MoreWhat is a Medicare Set Aside In a previous blogs we discussed how drawing workers’ compensation benefits could lead to a “set off” of Social Security disability benefits you might otherwise have been entitled to, and we explained how an offset could effect your disability benefits even if you settle your workers’ compensation claim absent Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In this next blog “From the Files of Powell and Denny” I am revisiting the fact pattern we discussed in the first blog on April 1, 2022, and the wrongful termination case discussed. In the previous blog, I briefly explained how our firm was fortunate enough to represent Read More
Read MoreChronic Pain and Disability Benefits Life can be painful, and we all have had some experiences in having to deal with pain to some extent, but chronic pain is something different. Chronic pain is defined as pain which limits one’s activities and lasts for at least 6 months-and it can be a lifetime problem. Chronic Read More
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