Workers’ compensation is meant to help employees injured on the job or while performing work activities. If you put in a claim and it is accepted, you will receive benefits like medical treatment and compensation for a portion of lost wages. Its sounds like a pretty good deal, but that is only when your claim …

Although the term “pain and suffering†is widely popular, the majority of people may not fully understand the implication of the term in regards to personal injury lawsuits. Pain and suffering is divided into two distinct types including mental pain and suffering and physical pain and suffering. In the case of mental pain and suffering, …

In order to determine whether or not you may be eligible for lasting disability benefits from the workers’ compensation insurance company used by your employer, you must first determine if a work related injury has caused a permanent impairment that restricts your ability to do your job properly. You may decide to simply accept the …

There are many reasons a person may need access to their medical records such as certain types of lawsuits like personal injury and accident cases. Your medical records can play a critical role in cases such as these in order to prove that the other party indeed was responsible for your injuries and therefore your …

When workers get injured and can no longer carry out their duties, they depend upon workers’ compensation to pay for any possible lost wages and certain medical coverage. Although your employer may claim that you are covered, it is possible for that coverage to exclude certain circumstances, which is why it is critically important that …

It is common that a large number of medical malpractice lawsuits originate directly from a misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, injury, or illness. Further complications such as delayed or incorrect treatment, or even no treatment at all can be a direct result of a doctors misdiagnosis and can cause a patient’s condition to deteriorate rapidly, possibly resulting …

Many times, construction sites can be very dangerous places for both pedestrians as well as the individual construction workers employed at the site. It is also very common for people to think of someone falling from a height when hearing about construction site injuries when in fact, some of the most critical construction site injuries …

It is widely known that in order for someone to win their court case, a person must meet their burden of proof. Although this is true in the majority of cases, the exception to this rule is where strict liability is applied. Strict liability is used when a person is determined to be responsible for …

An injury resulting from a harsh back-and-forth movement of the neck, often resulting from a car accident, is commonly called “whiplash.” Although whiplash injuries are often portrayed through television and other mediums as not being entirely serious, the truth is that suffering from whiplash is extremely painful for its victims. Whiplash can have a large …