Serious Work Injuries May Require Modified Work Duties

In Pennsylvania when you are injured, the employer is obligated to provide you with a list called the panel of physicians. The law requires that there be at least 6 doctors on that panel of physicians of different specialties, you have to pick from that list in the first 90 days. In other words if you want your medical bills to be paid you have to treat with one of those doctors. After 90 days you can choose any doctor you want and those bills must be paid provided that the treatment is related to your injury and reasonable and necessary.

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Social Security Disability – Navigating A Difficult Process

Nancy: Today on North Carolina Law TV, David Daggett, Injury and Disability Lawyer from Daggett Shuler Law out of Winston, Salem talks to us about social security disability. David: A worker has paid into that system and if they’re disabled that’s their insurance benefit if they become disabled. It’s not welfare. It’s something paid into […]

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Do I Need a Lawyer to Handle my Traumatic Brain Injury Claim?

Traumatic brain injury is any injury that causes an external mechanical force and creates brain dysfunction. There are various levels of traumatic brain injuries from very mild concussion like symptoms to very serious symptoms, life altering symptoms and even death. In more serious traumatic brain injuries you will see bruising, torn tissues, bleeding and other […]

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How to Obtain Social Security Disability Benefits

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The Aftermath of Car Accidents – Steps to Take, Mistakes to Avoid

In a country with millions of miles of roads and approximately 253 million cars, car accidents are an unfortunate fact of life. In the US alone, over 37,000 people die in road crashes every year. And nearly 2 and a half million Americans are injured or disabled in car accidents annually. The effects of road crashes are often long-term and far-reaching.

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How The Lovely Law Firm Started

I love to tell the story of how we got started and when I came out of law school, I had a job and I was really lucky that I got a job because the majority of my friends didn’t get a job. And you were a year behind me in law school and I didn’t really know anybody, but I got a job and I worked for somebody for a year and then we started our own firm when you when you got licensed and got sworn in and we hung our shingle in a little tiny office.

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The Dangers and Risks of Vaping

The idea behind JUUL, it’s an e-cigarette delivery device, and it’s meant, or what we thought it was meant to do was to keep people from smoking cigarettes. There’s a vape cartridge that goes into a battery device that heats up the coil, and essentially, you are led to believe that you’re inhaling vapor instead of cigarette smoke. JUUL is a company that’s kind of taken the market by storm. Today, they have about 70% of the e-cig market in America, and I believe even worldwide.

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