After months of preparation and studying, 8th graders from Rachel Carson Middle School in Herndon, Virginia placed in the top three at the “We the People” national constitutional law and civics competition held...
Category: Personal Injury
Head-On Crash on I-81 leaves Defendant Dead on the Interstate and Plaintiff Permanently Impaired
April 14, 2015
In a head-on crash caused by a Defendant leaving the northbound lanes of I-81, the driver was killed on impact. The driver was a school teacher who was traveling for her work. The Plaintiff, who was driving southbound on...
Insurance Lobby Tries to Cut Doctors out of Workers’ Comp Prescription Medication Loop
April 11, 2015
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) is an insurance company-funded organization which, for years, has been reporting that doctors in the Maryland workers’ comp system were dispensing 40% of all...
If an injured worker is released by her doctor to full duty work, with no restrictions, the employer can not only terminate Workers’ Compensation wage-loss benefits, they can also terminate the employee in Virginia...
Workers’ Comp System Under Fire Again
April 5, 2015
Earlier this year, we posted about an NPR series condemning our nation’s workers’ comp system. A day after that ProPublica/NPR story hit the airwaves, the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health...