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 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 [...]
by Charles Buchanan | Jan 10, 2012 | Accidents, Health, Safety, Uncategorized
Our Hurt Trucker blog series on a trucker’s health continues this week with a discussion of sleep apnea, which has received a lot of publicity in the trucking industry in recent years. Sleep apnea is a condition in which a narrowing or closure of the upper airway during sleep causes repeated sleep disturbances, leading to poor [...]
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, [...]
