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Dollar General has been sued by a grandmother who was physically assaulted by an employee of Dollar General.  The grandmother was shopping with her grandson on his birthday. The suit alleges that an employee of the Dollar General store physically assaulted the grandmother multiple times when the grandmother attempted to pay for her merchandise.

In a recent Case presented to the Court of Appeals, Screven County v. Sandlin, decided May 4, 2022, by the Georgia Court of Appeals, the case involved an inmate who was riding in the County’s own pick up truck. The inmate was the passenger in the back seat and the truck veered off the road causing the inmate’s seat belt to break.

This is the theory that the insurance company and their attorney use to deny an injured persons’ claim.

This Rule should apply to politicians in Congress. I would like to see many of them go and not return. But that is the subject of another blog.

People always want to know what their chances of prevailing are after filing for a SSDIB claim. There are a few things that the SS Administration will look at that are extremely important.

I ask everyone who comes to me seeking SSDIB who has less than a continuous 5-10 years of employment history to visit SS.GOV-my account.

Many legislatures in the US have been influenced by the companies who handle workers’ compensation cases who want to establish a “Drug Formulary”. What this means is that the insurance companies seek to have a set regimen for every injured person that is in chronic pain and is need of chronic pain management.

It seems that every Christmas season (October 15 to December 15) is the time when many insurance companies decide to put on the “hard press” to settle many of their claims in workers’ compensation cases and automobile accident claims. These are the major areas I practice law, so I have many opportunities to settle my client cases during this time.

It’s Christmas! Everywhere we hear the stores pipe in their music for all of us shoppers. The song that is heard most often is Andy Williams: “It’s a most wonderful time of the year.”