by Charles Buchanan | Feb 16, 2012 | Facebook, Injury Claims, Personal Injury, Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized, Workers Compensation
Our technology blog this week focuses on the impact (sometimes negative) that social media can have on your personal injury or workers’ compensation claim. Social Media Mistakes Can Damage Personal Injury and Workers Comp CasesThe internet has changed the way we live our lives in innumerable ways. Information is more accessible than at any time [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Feb 13, 2012 | Benefits, Health, Injury Claims, medical care, Personal Injury, Trucker rights, Uncategorized, Workers Compensation
Last week, we posted "Trucking and Your Back - A Painful Combination." In that post, we highlighted how common back injuries are in the trucking industry. Back injuries account for over 37% of all musculoskeletal injuries in truck drivers. In this week's post, we share some tips, tricks, and resources to help truckers avoid these [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Feb 9, 2012 | Accidents, Health, Injury Claims, medical care, Personal Injury, Uncategorized, Workers Compensation
Back pain is common in our country. Over 80% of Americans have complained of back pain at some point in their lives. For truck drivers, back injuries are even more common and the pain can make it impossible to continue driving a truck. Hurt Trucker Attorneys Back Injuries The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 30, 2012 | Accidents, Attorney, Employment law, Federal law, Injury Claims, Injury Rating, insurance, Laws, Lawyer, medical care, Missouri, Paul Taylor, Personal Injury, Safety, Trucker rights, Workers Compensation
On Thursday, February 26th Charles Buchanan, Hurt Trucker's lead attorney and editor of the Hurt Trucker blog, had the pleasure of speaking with many truckers and trucking advocates on Truth About Trucking's weekly live online radio show. Listen to internet radio with Aubrey Allen Smith on Blog Talk Radio The topic of discussion was "Truckers Rights [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 29, 2012 | Health, Personal Injury, Workers Compensation
The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported early Saturday morning that a truck driver crashed into the Schneider National facility in Edwardsville, IL igniting a fire. The condition of the trucker and the specifics of the crash were not immediately known. As it turns out, the crash was only part of a sequence of events that [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 23, 2012 | Benefits, Impairment Rating, Injury Claims, Injury Rating, Payments, Personal Injury, Uncategorized, Workers Compensation
Workers' Compensation can help truckers pay bills after an injury. We continue our series this week on “Paying Bills After an Injury” by discussing workers’ compensation benefits. Our last post in this serious gave an overview of the "no fault" workers' compensation system. This week we provide more information about the workers' compensation benefits [...]
