Compassionate Guidance For Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability
Beginning later this summer, workers' compensation carriers will have to issue a "notice of claim status" when accepting a "medical only" claim. The change will inform injured workers that the carrier has accepted medical liability for the claim. "Medical only" claims...
Social Security's disability program has built in some work incentives which allow claimants to attempt working while still collecting disability benefits. Longtime Social Security Administration veteran and syndicated columnist Tom Margenau addressed this issue and...
For the 23rd year in a row, legal peers have chosen for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in the Workers' Compensation - Claimants practice area.Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on rigorous peer-review...
We represent injured workers from all walks of life and in every kind of occupation. Among the most dedicated workers we encounter are the teachers and educational support staff in our local public schools. They typically share a common passion and commitment to...
Veterans can now check the status of pending appeals and get access to detailed information about the disability benefits process by logging in to the "appeals tracker".On April 11th, Chris Given, a Data Engineer with US Digital Service US Digital Service shared an...
On April 23rd, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Lucia v. SEC, which raises the question of the legitimacy of the appointment of federal administrative law judges ("ALJs"). Although the case deals with ALJs in the Securities and Exchange...
We're big fans of Tom Margenau, a 32-year veteran of the Social Security Administration who retired in 2005 and who has written the syndicated column "Social Security and You" since 1997. His informational column, published every Sunday in the Arizona Daily Star, is a...
President Trump's proposed 2019 federal budget, released earlier this month, wants to cut $72 billion over 10 years from disability programs, including Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. Coupled with the cuts to our safety net the...
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...
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...