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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.

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

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.”

You may think that lawyers in general are an ungrateful lot. You may be right. Many lawyers represent corporations that are awful companies and that have policies that hurt people deeply.

There should be a Bill of Rights for injured people when it comes to dealing with, working with, being represented by a lawyer. Let me name a few of those rights that all injured people should ask their attorneys: