We have seen COVID-19 numbers skyrocket this fall. There has been a corresponding increase in employees who are forced to miss work for COVID-related reasons. Fortunately, the federal government anticipated this back in March, when it passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. This law creates two weeks of additional, mandatory paid sick leave for…
Section 354 of the Michigan Workers’ Disability Compensation Act allows for employers to offset workers’ compensation wage loss benefits for all sorts of reasons. These reasons include the receipt of Social Security Retirement benefits, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Unemployment Insurance, etc. Included in the types of benefits that can serve as an offset are Pension…
How could the president’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court Justice impact your personal injury claim? It seems pretty remote. After all, most injury claims settle well before trial, much less before being appealed to the higher courts, much less the highest court in the land! But I’m here to tell you, it…
I was recently having a discussion with my assistant about “jury pools.” A jury pool is the pool of people called to the courthouse from whom a jury will ultimately be selected, either in a civil or criminal case. My assistant had been a potential juror on a criminal case a handful of years ago….
This article is meant to give you a look at what litigation (i.e., filing a lawsuit) looks like for a claimant with a personal injury. Often times, the beginning and the end of the legal representation involve a flurry of activity, while the part in the middle involves a whole lot of thumb-twiddling. Clients should…
When a potential client calls a lawyer for the first time, there is a lot going on. The client is assessing the lawyer. The lawyer is assessing the client. The lawyer is assessing the case. For better or for worse, the tone of that very first phone call will set the expectations for the entire…
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