As many readers in Tennessee are aware, the football season has only recently gotten underway for another year. Our state's NFL team, the Titans, hope to make it a winning season. For one former player, the new season marks the end of a long workers' compensation...
Month: September 2012
Childhood SSI Benefits
Childhood Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits are available to children from birth up to age eighteen. To qualify for childhood SSI benefits, a child must meet the Social Security Administration's definition for disability...
EEOICPA ORNL (X-10) Special Exposure Cohort Approved
Great news for EEOICPA claimants! On September 18, 2012, the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health approved the Special Exposure Cohort petition for employees with certain cancers, who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (X-10), for the...
Fatal Tennessee crash caused by driver negligence?
The cause of a tragic Tennessee car accident that took the life of one local woman and injured others is unclear at this time. A passenger car and a pickup truck crashed head-on at an intersection of U.S. Highway 411. It appears that both drivers and several other...
Tennessee truck accident ends in injury and death
The exact details of a recent multi-vehicle crash on a Tennessee highway are still being determined. What is known is that the truck accident involved a car colliding with two tractor-trailers. The driver of the car, a 53-year-old male, was killed in the accident.In...
Personal Injury Lawsuit from Accident on Washington Pike
, on behalf of their client, Sarah Tinder, who saw three people killed in a hit-and-run accident on Washington Pike, has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the accused driver.In May, Tinder's car stalled when she ran out of gas....
Fibromyalgia and Social Security Disability and SSI Claimants
Social Security Disability and SSI claimants received good news in July of 2012 when the Social Security Administration issued SSR 12-2p. Up until now, SSDI and SSI claimants met varying levels of scrutiny when alleging disability based on...
Pedestrian killed in Highway 441 crash in Tennessee
Police in Tennessee are conducting an investigation aimed at discovering what events led to an accident that claimed the life of a female pedestrian recently. The woman was reportedly crossing a local highway when she was struck by a car and killed. As happens in many...