Workers’ compensation is designed to provide lost wages and medical care as benefits that get victims back to work and back to life after suffering an injury in the workplace. To that extent, injured victims receive money for both rehabilitative therapy and vocational therapy. The former is designed to restore mobility and everyday functions, while the latter helps injured workers …
Understanding Pedestrian Deaths: A Growing Problem
A confluence of factors, including a rise in distracted driving incidents, caused pedestrian fatalities to increase 10% in the first two quarters of 2015. Is the sudden rise a one-off spike or the beginning of a new trend? The report by the Governors Highway Safety Association also opined that unusually mild weather, relatively low gas prices, and an improving economy …
Plan Ahead: What to Consider Before Working Overseas
Living and working in a foreign country is an amazing adventure for many people, but before you board the plane, there are a few things to know. Many people do not even have to change employers to work overseas because such assignments are already available. In other situations, transitioning to another U.S.-based employer is a better option; in rare instances, …
New Medical Survival Advances With Veterans and Contractors Leads to Challenges for Long-Term Care
Victims and practitioners have long known and understood that the scars of war do not heal until long after the conflict has passed. Now, researchers are getting a better idea of just how long it takes. The good news for Iraq veterans is that the injury survival rate is around 90%, meaning that many wounds that would have been fatal …
Four Workers’ Compensation Mistakes to Avoid
Under Florida’s workers’ compensation law, injured workers have access to no-fault insurance benefits that compensate them for their economic losses, such as medical bills and lost wages. However, “no-fault” does not mean the process is easy. The insurance company has attorneys whose sole mission is to reduce the amount of benefits that injured workers receive, or even deny these benefits …