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Workers Compensation Benefits & Job Injuries
Workers Compensation Benefits For Injured Workers After an employee is injured at work some companies attempt to minimize or outright ignore it if they think they can get away with it. Sometimes they...
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Personal Injury: Expert Testimony
Examining X-ray by colegiocetas on flickr Heavy impact on the human body can fracture bones. This seems obvious. But, in a court of law, cause and effect and the extent of damages must be supported...
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Personal Injury: Emotional Distress
Shocked by apdk on flickr Stress infiltrates our lives. Between bills, demanding jobs, nerve-wracking traffic, getting kids to their activities and other worries, who isn’t stressed? How do courts...
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PERSONAL INJURY – Rules of Evidence
By Jerry Bunkers on Flickr Evidence never gets into court without passing the rules of evidence. Courts admit evidence only when it complies with rules, statutes and case law comprising evidence law....
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WHY DO PERSONAL INJURY INSURANCE CLAIMS TAKE SO LONG?
A Turtle’s Pace It can take a long time for an injury claim to crawl through the insurance claims handling process. The maze of the insurance claim handling process frustrates injured people waiting...
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PERSONAL INJURY: Negligence Law &“Torts”
By ER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd. on Flickr In the law, the word “tort” means a civil wrong. Latin play less of a role in the law as in previous eras. But, the word tort comes from “tortum” or “tortus” meaning...
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PERSONAL INJURY: Reasonable Person Standard
By Hvnly on Flickr Negligence happens when a person does one of two things: Fails to do something that a reasonable person would do, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...
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PERSONAL INJURY: CAUSATION AND NEGLIGENCE
An unbroken chain must connect cause-and-effect between an accident and an injury in any case. It may seem obvious. But, causation is a fundamental element underlying every claim of negligence. As...
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WORKERS COMPENSATION: Injuries
Injuries at work can be caused by accidents, falling down, or a machine injury. Sometimes, repetitive motion causes harm. Examples are constant typing at a computer or handling of machine controls and...
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Independent Medical Examination in Personal Injury: the “IME”
Independent Medical Examination Independent Medical Examination is anything but independent. The exams, also called an “IME” are also not medical examinations in the sense of a physician performing an...
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