Compassionate Guidance For Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability
Recent Arizona law grad will focus on Social Security Disability Insurance, Veteran Disability cases Autumn Kycia is a new associate attorney at . The firm represents people in workers' compensation, Social Security disability, and Veteran...
Thanks to the passage of Arizona's minimum wage and paid sick time law (Proposition 206) last November, minimum wage workers got a pay increase and employees got the ability to earn paid sick time beginning July 1.The Fair Wages and Health Families Act requires...
Despite President Trump's campaign promise to leave Social Security alone, his budget director, Michael Mulvaney recently called the Social Security disability a "very wasteful program" that has grown too quickly under President Obama and needs to be fixed. The...
Senate Bill 1407, which would have allowed the state, its counties and cities to decide which doctor injured public servants had to see for medical care, ran into a dead end this legislative session. The bill's primary sponsor Sen. Karen Fann withdrew SB 1407 when it...
The seriously flawed Senate Bill 1407 ("SB 1407") advancing through the state Legislature would give the state and its political subdivisions ("government") the power to direct and control over which doctors treat public servants for their work-related injuries.If...
In most cases, the injured worker can choose her treating doctor for the industrial injury, so long as that happens before the second visit. An exception is if your employer is self-insured and directs medical care. For example, you are hurt on the job and, per...
Soon after taking office, President Trump announced a federal hiring freeze. One likely impact of a hiring freeze will be even more delays in the hearing process for Social Security Disability applicants.On average, it takes 18 to 20 months to get a hearing date when...
We often see that when an injured worker's case begins to get complicated the insurance carrier typically contracts with a third-party company to assign a nurse case manager ("NCM") to the claim. The NCM says he or she is there to "help" you with the medical aspects...
We saw this column about Social Security disability by Tom Margenau in the Jan. 13 edition of the Tucson newspaper: "The Post-Truth Era and Social Security". Perhaps you've heard the falsehood about our Social Security disability program: that minorities get benefits...
Arizona lawmakers returned to Phoenix January 9 for the first day of the new Legislative session. Our state legislators have the power to make changes to Arizona Workers' Compensation system. It's important to know who your state Senator and two state Representatives...