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• Workers' Compensation Cheaters Hurt Legitimate Claimants

  Brent Adams | February 26, 2008 10:08 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  Fortunately, cheaters who try to defraud the workers' compensation system almost always get caught. These few cheaters should be punished severely. They not only hurt their employers and their insurance companies, they also make it harder for legitimate claimants to recover the benefits to which they are entitled.Workers' compensation fraud and wrongdoing by employers and their insurance...

• U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Immunity In Product Liability Cases

  Brent Adams | February 25, 2008 8:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case which could have a major effect on victims of defective products including pharmaceuticals.The case involves the validity of a Michigan law which kept Michigan victims of the defective drug Rezulin from collecting from a settlement that Rezulin victims of all other states participated it.The federal district court in Michigan...

• Deaths From ATV'S Continue To Rise

  Brent Adams | February 21, 2008 10:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Deaths from all-terrain-vehicles (ATV's) due to personal injuries received in accidents involving are continually on the rise, a trend which has led to increased tensions over pending safety regulations as the popularity of the vehicles continues to rise.According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 870 people died in ATV wrecks in 2005, an increase from 860 in the year...

• Inadequate Disability Examinations

  Vance Jennings | February 20, 2008 4:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Charlotte Observer ran an article a while ago regarding "hasty disability exams" in Social Security Disability claims. The federal government hires doctors in North Carolina to perform disability exams on claimants. According to the article, North Carolina doctors collected $12 million in the fiscal year of 2006 from such exams. The Charlotte Observor interviewed 40 current and former...

• Over 4,000 Bad Nursing Homes in the US - THREE in NC

  Christina Medlin | February 18, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) , formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments), and several other health-related programs....

• Raleigh woman attacked by neighbor's dog

  Brent Adams | February 14, 2008 12:58 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Raleigh North Carolina woman is attacked by neighbors vicious Pit Bull while trying to save her pet Poodle. She does have a remedy for her injuries, but North Carolina law should give stronger protection from dangerous dogs.Malinda Delbridge, a Raleigh, North Carolina resident was attacked by her neighbor's Pit Bull after she tried to save her pet Poodle from the jaws of the vicious Pit...

• Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer Asks for Tougher Dog Bite Laws

  Brent Adams | February 13, 2008 12:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  North Carolina's dog bite laws are not sufficient to protect citizens from dangerous dogs in an increasingly urban environment.In a recent editorial, the Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer, urged state and municipal lawmakers to enact tougher law to protect urban dog bite victims. When dog bites man, it may not always make the news; however, the personal injuries received by the victim...

• Criminal Case Highlights Danger of Representative Payees

  Brent Adams | February 11, 2008 11:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  According to United States Attorney Catherine Hanaway and the Police Chief of Macon, Missouri, Steve Olinger, a Macon couple, Donald and Mary Hicks, have been indicted on charges of stealing a total of $86,534 in benefits from Social Security Disability from another couple that was in their care. In the September of 1998, Donald Hicks was chosen by the Social Security Administration as a...

• Pork Processing Plant Workers Contract Illness After Inhaling Pig Brain Particles

  Sheila Chavis | February 08, 2008 4:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  A cluster of workers at a pork processing plant in Minnesota have contracted an illness that has been connected with the workers' exposure to particles of pig brains. The workers were found to be exposed by inhaling the bits of pig brain during a process where the brains are blown out of the skull of the pig using compressed air. The brains are harvested packaged and sold primarily to Japan...