Sustaining a workplace injury can seriously impact your life. You may have to receive prolonged medical treatment, lose your ability to work for a period or permanently and accrue many expenses. Workers' compensation helps deal with the costs associated with getting...
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Statistics on traffic collisions due to distracted driving
If you encounter a distracted driver on the road, you could become seriously hurt if they collide with you. Whether you are driving, riding in a car, riding a bike or walking, distracted drivers are especially likely to collide with vehicles and people because they...
How does wealth impact divorce?
When going through a divorce, asset division is often at the top of people's minds when it comes to things they are not looking forward to. To that end, assets and wealth in general have a big impact on divorce itself. But in what ways does wealth truly impact...
What can a mediator do in a divorce?
Going through divorce is hard enough without adding any additional stressors to it. To that end, how can you make divorce as easy as possible? You could potentially skip litigation, i.e. the process of taking your divorce to court. But what can you do instead?...
Can a DUI change your college career?
College students may sometimes have a short-sighted view of the future. For this reason, college students facing DUI charges often focus on the immediate repercussions like the possibility of time in jail or fines. However, some of the worst repercussions of a DUI...
3 FAQs about dog bites
Whether you love dogs or not, getting bitten by one may result in serious injuries and long-term medical expenses to combat severe infections and potential diseases. According to research in the National Library of Medicine, dog bites account for 1% of emergency...
What should you know about permanency calculations?
By suffering an injury on the job, it opens up the possibility of qualifying for workers' compensation benefits. A schedule of calculations will further determine whether or not the individual may receive a permanency award, but what exactly is this? How does workers'...
Can back injuries have a mental impact?
Suffering from a back injury often results in physical effects that can take a long time to recover from. However, back injuries may also have an emotional or mental impact. These impacts are often just as severe and problematic as their physical counterparts. Chronic...
Remote employees, workers’ comp and the personal comfort doctrine
The number of people working from home has increased dramatically in the past two years. But what happens if a remote worker sustains an injury? A remote employee could suffer an injury for a variety of reasons, which brings to mind the personal comfort doctrine. Does...
What is an aggravated DUI?
A first-time DUI charge is usually a Class A misdemeanor. However, there are circumstances when you may receive felony charges for a DUI. Any time a DUI results in felony charges it becomes an Aggravated DUI. Aggravated DUI Multiple offenses may result in an...