More than 70% of the world’s lawyers live in the U.S. If you’ve been looking for a lawyer, you’ve probably realized the many types of lawyers that exist. Finding one for your case depends on the type of legal problem at hand. The legal field is extensive, requiring lawyers to specialize in a specific area…
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The sound of an alarm clock or cell phone alarm ringing on a workday is unpleasant for most people, but if the only thing you are dreading is rush hour traffic or your micromanaging boss, consider yourself lucky. Imagine trying to get through a workday where you have to stand, walk, or drive a vehicle…
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Whiplash injury is very common, and it can happen to anyone. In your childhood, you might have overheard the elderly ladies at the table next to you at brunch talking about it as they went through the litany of their health complaints and those of their loved ones. You might also have seen it in…
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Five states currently have state disability plans. In all states except Texas, most employers are required to provide some type of disability insurance to workers. Yet what happens when your disability insurance is not enough? You may be confused by all of the paperwork required for you to get the money you need to pay…
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Not all work injuries are slip and fall injuries on warehouse floors or wet docks. In fact, some of them are not injuries at all; instead, they are chronic illnesses. An occupational disease is any chronic illness caused by prolonged exposure to disease-causing factors in the course of performing one’s normal duties at work. That…
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Approximately 6 million car accidents occur in the United States every year. Around 2 million drivers experience permanent injuries every year. This means that if you’ve never been in a car accident, you will most likely be in one sometime in your lifetime. You will also most certainly sustain some sort of trauma. Enter car…
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Healthy people often daydream about what it would be like not to have to go to work, but many people who are out of work because of an illness or injury would give anything to trade places with those workers who grumble about the daily grind. Waking up early, commuting in rush hour traffic,…
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Whether or not a car accident has determined fault affects which insurance company pays for repair to vehicle damage resulting from the accident. It also affects how much you will have to pay for car insurance premiums in the subsequent months and years. It does not have any bearing, however, on the severity of the…
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Manual labor can take a toll on your body. Most people feel tired and sore after even just a few days of working at a construction site or stocking heavy items in a store, even if those workers are young and healthy. Physically demanding summer jobs during their high school years have motivated many people…
DetailsEthicon, Inc. — the medical sutures manufactures and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary — was issued a Class 1 recall by the FDA for a line of endo-surgery endoscopic and non-endoscopic staplers last week. The recall will affect approximately 92,496 staplers manufactured between March 15, 2018, and March 8, 2019. The various defects can increase the…
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Ever since the classic era of the Dilbert comic strip in the 1990s, workers in a variety of industries have been fond of complaining that paperwork, or, more recently, electronic record keeping, has made them less efficient at their jobs and has made work feel like even more of a hassle. While it is usually…
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Manual labor can take a toll on your body. Most people feel tired and sore after even just a few days of working at a construction site or stocking heavy items in a store, even if those workers are young and healthy. Physically demanding summer jobs during their high school years have motivated many people…
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Whether or not a car accident has determined fault affects which insurance company pays for repair to vehicle damage resulting from the accident. It also affects how much you will have to pay for car insurance premiums in the subsequent months and years. It does not have any bearing, however, on the severity of the…
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3M recently settled their claim with the United States Military over their defective earplugs, Duel-Ended Combat Earplugs that were sold after prior knowledge the earplugs were ineffective. These earplugs were originally marketed as “combat earplugs”: designed for the purpose of blocking out the loud noises experienced by troops fighting in the front lines. Two different…
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Almost all drivers in St. Louis have roads and parts of the city they like to avoid, but what does the data say about the worst places to drive in St. Louis? The St. Louis Post Dispatch published a map of the 10 most dangerous intersections in St. Louis. Its data came from 148,000 reports…
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