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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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October 6, 2019
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Alabama Job Injury Lawyers Effects of Pain A few years back I had some serious health problems, and in an 8 month span I had to undergo 4 surgeries. During my recover, I learned something about pain I never knew before. Sure, I had broken some bones growing up, had 2 concussions while playing football, Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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October 6, 2019
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Monday morning I was listening to NPR and a report they had on Type I diabetes, and I was shocked to learn that nearly half of all children who develop Type 1 diabetes don’t know they have the disease until they end up in a coma in the hospital. Fortunately, new tests are helping doctors and Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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October 5, 2019
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No one is exempt from battling depression and anxiety-not even Pastors (and your heart goes out to the family of Mr. Wilson). Here in the South we like to think we live in the Bible Belt and that our faith and trust in Christ will get us through any storm and therefore we don’t talk about Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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October 4, 2019
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Alabama Worker Compensation Questions: (6) I was told that I was not entitled to workers comp benefits because of a preexisting condition: I could not count the number of times I have had a client come in who was injured at work, but was informed that workers’ comp was refusing to accept liability because 20 Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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October 2, 2019
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Alabama Workers Comp Attorneys: What is an Occupational Disease? The attached article from NPR is about lung damage being suffered by employees who make Kitchen Countertops. As the story states: “The fear is that thousands of workers in the United States who create countertops out of what’s known as ‘engineered stone’ may be inhaling dangerous amounts of Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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October 1, 2019
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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (5) My boss told me I waited too long to report my injury: What is NOTICE? To have a valid claim for workers’ comp benefits due to injuries sustained during an on-the-job injury, it is imperative that the injured worker provide proper notice of their work related injury to their employer. Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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September 29, 2019
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Four years after NPR and ProPublica did an investigation into the decline of workers compensation benefits for injured workers-and PBS’s NewsHour did their own segment (click here). Alabama was an example of how bad it has gotten for injured workers. At the same time the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) and the U.S. Department Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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September 28, 2019
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Did you know that according to a 2013 study by The National Health Institute, Correctional Officer was the most dangerous job in American for the year ending 2011? It is still listed as one of the 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the U.S. How much more dangerous is the job here in Alabama, where our officers are Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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September 27, 2019
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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (4) What if I caused my job accident? Many times our attorneys have received phone calls from injured workers who asked whether they would be entitled to workers comp benefits if they caused or contributed to the on the job accident which caused their job injury. In the vast majority of Read More
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William Powell of Powell & Denny
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September 26, 2019
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“Schizophrenia has changed my life—but it hasn’t ruined it.” This sentence is how the author of the attached article ends her piece. She deals with the very real struggles she has had with her paranoid schizophrenia, and knows that the battle will last the rest of her life-but she has not lost hope. Hope that today Read More
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