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Why You Need an Alabama Workers Compensation Attorney
Every day in Alabama, a worker suffers some type of job injury*; while most of the incidents are minor in nature and require only one or two visits to the workers’ compensation physician, it is not always easy to tell whether an injury is merely a sprained muscle or something which will require surgery. What Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation: Am I an employee?
For someone interested in workers’ comp law-this is an interesting case. Grad assistants at the University of Missouri argued that they should be considered employees of the university-the University argued that they were just students. The Western District Court of Appeals ruled that grad assistants are-in fact-employees. Regardless of how an employer chooses to classify Read More
Read MoreInjured Workers at Increased Risk of Suicide
The attached article (click here) should get everyone’s attention. Suffering a serious job injury is bad enough, but then you have to figure in the financial worries (try surviving long on 2/3rds of you wages while having to pay 100% of your bills), fear of loosing your job once you recover, having to fight Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Take a moment to watch the attached video (click here)-and think about how poorly injured workers in Alabama are compensated compared to the rest of the Nation. Alabama workers deserve better. Contact your State Representative and tell them that our workers deserve better!! Better yet, email them a copy of this video, and if you Read More
Read MoreAlabama Disability Attorneys: Schizoaffective Disorder
“The moral of the story: do what they say you can’t. Accomplish what they said you never would. Be the person you were told you’d never be. Stay strong, defy odds and don’t let anything hold you back.” As this piece (here) wonderfully shows-one can have a full, rewarding and exciting life with a mental illness Read More
Read MoreLawsuit accuses doctor of bias against injured workers
I wish the facts as set forth in this piece were rare and uncommon, but I’d be lying if I said that there weren’t certain physicians in Alabama whom the workers’ compensation insurance carrier sends injured workers to see because they KNOW what the doctor will do and say. Physical Therapy will be ordered, the injured worker Read More
Read MoreBipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a serious medical condition which can, and often does, affect children as well as adults. Person’s suffering from bipolar disorder experience severe mood swings; from periods of crushing depression in which getting out of bed to be around others can be an excruciating task, to times in Read More
Read MoreAlabama Disability Attorneys: Sickle Cell Anemia
We hope that this new therapy will be successful in helping those who suffer with Sickle Cell. Sickle Cell Anemia is an inherited blood disorder which causes red blood cells to mutate to a crescent or sickle shape when the cells are deprived of oxygen, making it difficult for the cells to pass through blood vessels. Read More
Read MoreBlack Lung and other Occupational Diseases
As the attached article shows (click here ), Coal miners are expected on Capitol Hill today, where they’ll ask federal regulators and members of Congress to fully restore a coal excise tax that pays for medical care and some living expenses for miners diagnosed with black lung, a crippling disease caused by the inhalation of Read More
Read MoreSuffering with anxiety? You are not alone.
I hate it for anyone who suffers with a mental illness, but love it when they speak publicly-especially those who are well known. Letting others who are not well known, who feel as though they are the only person suffering and struggling with a particular illness has incalculable benefits, even more so here in the Read More
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