Understanding Recent Changes to Health Care Law

This is the final segment on our series on health insurance.  Our first two segments discussed How We Pay for Health Care and Understanding Health Insurance Coverage.  In this segment we discuss The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) signed by President Obama in 2010.  Understanding Health Insurance CoverageThe PPACA has been the subject of [...]

Supplemental Security Income Provides Income For Hurt Truckers With Limited Resources

In our last post, we we discussed Social Security Disability (SSD) as a way for hurt truck drivers to pay bills when they cannot work.  In this segment of "Paying Bills After An Injury", we discuss a similar program called Supplemental Security Income (SSI). SSI is a federal government benefit program that pays monthly benefits [...]

Social Security Disability Can Help Hurt Truckers Pay Bills After An Injury

In our prior post on “Paying Bills After an Injury,” we discussed private disability insurance.  We continue the segment in this post discussing Social Security Disability benefits. Many people think that Social Security is just a retirement program.  That is not the case. Under certain circumstances, Social Security also provides disability benefits to those who [...]

Disability Insurance Can Help Truck Drivers Pay Bills After An Injury

In our last segments on “Paying Bills After an Injury,” we discussed workers' compensation and workers' compensation benefits.  We continue the segment in this post by discussing disability insurance policies. Disability insurance policies are sold by private insurance companies such as Aetna and the Hartford Financial. These policies pay benefits in the event you become [...]

Truckers are Protected if they Refuse to Violate Safety Rules or Drive Unsafe Equipment

Truckers must make tough decisions: but you are protected We recently attended the First Annual Truck Driver Social Media Conference in Tunica, Mississippi.  The conference was organized by Allen and Donna Smith, the fantastic trucker advocates with Ask the Trucker and Truth About Trucking.  For more information about the conference, check out our prior post [...]