By William Powell of Powell & Denny | Published May 16, 2022 | Posted in Workers Compensation | Tagged Tags: job injury, truth on application, work injury, workers compensation |
Alabama Job Injury Lawyers Tell the Truth on your Job Application Tell the Truth on your Job Application: In the South, we are taught to tell the truth. We all know that lying only leads to more headaches down the road. This is especially true when you are completing a Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In this “From the Files of Powell and Denny,” I am going recount a three-day workers’ compensation trial we had in Florence, Alabama, in Lauderdale County-which is quite unusual in itself as most workers’ compensation cases can be tried in one day, but this wasn’t your usual case. Read More
Read MoreDisabled Veterans and Social Security Disability If you live in Alabama and believe that you are disabled given a physical or mental condition, chances are you will be denied after your initial application and that an appeal will have to be filed. You probably don’t know that the Social Security Administration has a special set Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Trains and Cars Huntsville Car Accident Attorney Trains and Cars: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a motorist is approximately 40 TIMES more likely to die in a wreck involving an automobile and a train than a wreck between two cars. Alabama ranks 13th in the U.S. for highway-railroad Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny In this week’s “From the Files of Powell and Denny” blog, I am reviewing a Social Security Disability claim we had in North Alabama. Our client lived in Limestone County, Alabama, and in 2003 he suffered a back injury after falling from a ladder at work and had Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Drowsy Driving Drowsy Driving: According to a 2012 report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, two of every five drivers (41%) admit to having fallen asleep at the wheel. Furthermore, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that an estimated 100,000 wrecks occur yearly as a result of driver fatigue, Read More
Read MoreAlabama Car Wreck Lawyers Distracted Driving Distracted Driving: In 2012, Alabama became the 37th State to pass a law banning texting while driving. To date, 46 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have similar laws, reflecting the concern and damage caused by distracted driving. According to the National Read More
Read MoreFrom the Files of Powell and Denny Today in “From the Files of Powell and Denny” I want to briefly recount a medical malpractice case I had in the mid 90’s. I was in the Huntsville office on an otherwise nondescript day when I received a phone call from someone who said they had recently Read More
Read MoreAlabama 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
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