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• Social Security Quick Disability Determination Process- It's A Good Thing

  Stuart McAtee | July 23, 2009 8:00 AM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL

  As I have written in previous blogs, the SSD approval process can be a lengthy ordeal. What if you have medical condition that can cause severe disability, or even death, within a short period of...

• Car Wrecks - New eCrash Reports

  Jon Lewis | June 08, 2009 8:36 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  The Birmingham News reported today that the State has instituted a new eCrash system. This system allows the State Troopers to submit wreck reports electronically. According to the article, this...

• Dangerous Driving Habits That Can Result in Bicycle Accidents

  Danny Feldman | April 06, 2009 12:01 PM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL

  Anyone who has done much cycling will recognize the behaviors described below. Over the next few weeks, I plan to blog in more detail about these behaviors...

• Steel Coils and Truck Accidents in Alabama

  Jon Lewis | March 12, 2009 3:40 PM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  The Alabama legislature has finally come together to pass a bill with respect to steel coil loads. There have been numerous incidents where large trucks have lost their steel coil rolls on state...

• Bus Accidents

  Jon Lewis | October 22, 2008 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  More than three decades ago, UCLA engineers performed a series of classic school bus crash studies, which determined that the major cause for injury in school bus accidents was the inadequacy of...

• Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. according to JAMA Article

  Tedford Taylor | May 24, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  Liability reform to stop medical malpractice junk lawsuits, the subject of a Courier-Journal opinion piece, fell on deaf ears last week in light of an article printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association which reports doctors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 250,000 deaths annually. This flies in the face of the myth that tort...

• Your SSD Hearing, In Person Or By Video-Conference?

  Stuart McAtee | August 06, 2009 11:53 AM | 1 CommentBirmingham, AL

  Due to the backlog of cases in front of the Social Security Administration(SSA), in some geographic areas, the SSA has implemented a video-conference for the convenience of the parties and, in...

• Uninsured/Underinsured motorist coverage, do I need it?

  Danny Lehane | July 08, 2009 4:46 PM | 2 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  We recently settled a 6 figure case where the client sustained significant injuries as a result of the negligence of an UNINSURED driver. Although we recovered all the money that was available,...

• What have we Learned from GM and Chrysler?

  Jon Lewis | June 19, 2009 2:54 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  TEN things we have learned from GM and Chrysler: 1. There is no corporate accountability. 2. They enjoy taking the public's money. 3. Their CEO's and executives have gotten rich while they have...

• Cyclists should not ride against traffic

  Danny Feldman | June 18, 2009 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL

  This is the last of a 6-part series regarding annoying or dangerous cycling behaviors. Many people, almost without exception, non-cyclists, wonder why cyclists do not ride against (or into)...