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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (35) Can I use my own insurance to receive medical treatment?

Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (35) Can I use my own insurance to receive medical treatment?  Generally, NO. Alabama law dictates that your employer has to report a job injury. This is not open for interpretation; at this point your claim should be turned over to your employers’ workers’ compensation insurance carrier. In order to use Read More

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Higher Risks of Work Injury for those working in Retail

Higher Risks of Work Injury for those working in Retail The Holidays are upon us, and everyone is trying to do more and more in the same 24 hours allotted us. Nowhere is this more evident than with retail workers in America-with extended hours, sales and delivery service-as the attached article details. Did you know that Read More

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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (33) Am I entitled to a Settlement?

Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (33) Am I entitled to a Settlement? Am I entitled to a Settlement? At the outset, when we are just meeting with a potential client, we go ahead and discuss settlement. No, we have no idea what type of figures we will be dealing with or how long it may take Read More

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Schizophrenia and Social Security Disability Benefits

Schizophrenia and Social Security Disability Benefits Schizophrenia is a horrible mental illness which affects roughly 1.2% of Americans (3.2 million). According to the attached article, it is estimated that 70-80% of persons who suffer from schizophrenia fail to respond to antipsychotic treatment. That means that somewhere between 2,240,000 – 2,560,000 Americans who try to battle against Read More

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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (32) How Much am I paid under Workers Compensation?

Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (32) How Much am I paid under Workers Compensation? How much am I paid under Workers Compensation? If you suffered a job injury and have a valid Alabama Workers Compensation claim, you may be entitled to different types of monetary compensation. The most common type of compensation is temporary total disability Read More

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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (31) What is an Impairment Rating?

Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (31) What is an Impairment Rating? What is an impairment rating? After suffering a work injury and receiving medical treatment, you will eventually come to the point where your treating physician states that you are as good as you are going to get; this is known as your date of reaching Read More

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Misrepresentation of previous medical problems

Misrepresentation of previous medical problems Misrepresentation of previous medical problems: Through the years we have been practicing, our attorneys have had occasion to speak with injured workers who called to complain that their workers compensation claim was being denied because the workers compensation insurance carrier claimed that they had misrepresented a medical condition in their Read More

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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (29) Do I have to have Surgery if I don’t want it?

Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (29) Do I have to have Surgery if I don’t want it? Do I have to have surgery if I don’t want it? If you have suffered a compensable job injury in Alabama, you have to see the company doctor. You are also obliged to cooperate with the treatment recommended by Read More

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Manic Depression

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a serious medical condition which can, and in the attached article, Ms. Gardner explains just how the disorder can radically change one’s life and sometimes prevent the suffer from engaging in full time employment. Person’s suffering from bipolar disorder experience severe mood swings; from periods of crushing depression Read More

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