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Pension Offsetting in Workers’ Compensation Cases
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…
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The Supreme Court, Healthcare, and Injury Claims
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…
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The Jury Pool
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….
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Personal Injury Litigation
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…
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Setting Expectations
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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The Employment Fall Out Of work comp claims
We all derive a big piece of our identity from our vocation. What we do for a living is a huge part of who we are. That has become even more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, when so many workers have been stuck at home quarantining for months on end. So when a person gets…
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