by Charles Buchanan | Jan 19, 2012 | Benefits, Impairment Rating, Injury Claims, Injury Rating, medical care, Personal Injury, 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 as one of the options. In the coming weeks, we will post more detailed articles on the workers’ compensation process and benefits. In this two-part introductory post, we provide [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 6, 2012 | Injury Claims, medical care, Personal Injury, Tips, Uncategorized
Last month we discussed the unique challenges that professional truck drivers face paying their bills after an injury. The first option we will discuss in this series is a personal injury lawsuit. Personal injury lawsuits can be very important for injured truckers. If you have been injured by the wrongdoing of someone other than your employer, [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Dec 29, 2011 | Accidents, Attorney, Health, Lawyer, medical care, Personal Injury, Safety, Tips
Professional trucking is a rewarding job, but it is also very dangerous. Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics prove this point. The transportation and warehousing sector (which includes professional truck drivers) accounts for more job related deaths than almost all other sectors (631 deaths in 2010 alone). Work injuries to truck drivers and other [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Dec 13, 2011 | Injury Claims, insurance, Laws, Lawyer, medical care, Payments, Personal Injury, Tips
How do hurt truckers pay their bills? The two questions most often asked by injured truck drivers are: (1) how do I pay my bills and support my family when I cannot work and (2) how do I pay for medical care? These can be very difficult issues for injured truckers. In most states, an [...]
