Any serious injury on the job may impact a worker's life, both immediately and during recovery. If that injury falls outside the scope of workers' compensation, then it may threaten a workers' financial security. These injuries may arise from accidents that happen anywhere — or they may be the result...
Category: serious injuries
What do you know about third-party liability?
You hurt yourself at work recently, but your employer has workers' compensation insurance. While gathering information for your claim, you think your situation could involve a third party. The Nassau County Bar Association explains the basics of third-party liability personal injury cases. Find out if your workplace injury also qualifies...
The high cost of tetraplegia
Spinal cord injuries are often the result of serious motor vehicle accidents between cars and big-rigs, vehicles and bicyclists, or vehicles and pedestrians. Regardless of how a spinal cord injury occurs, it can cost the victim and his or her family hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in treatment,...
Amputees may have phantom pain
Amputations can have a deep impact on your psychological health. Some of the most immediate side effects you may experience are phantom pains. After losing a limb, you may sometimes feel like your limb is still part of your body. The Mayo Clinic says that you may feel pain in...
What should I know about vocational rehabilitation?
Suffering an injury at your workplace can dramatically change your life. You may find that you can no longer handle the kind of work you used to perform, and yet you want to return to the workforce as soon as you can. This is where vocational rehabilitation may assist you....
What are the common causes of truck accidents?
The trucking industry is an essential part of the U.S. economy. Truck ship almost every good that people need to survive. They also supplement many industries to allow them to manufacture goods for the public. Demand for everything is high these days, which means there are many trucks on the...
How prevalent are deadly bus crashes?
If you recently lost a loved one due to a bus accident, you could have a number of devastating hardships to work through. Aside from emotional pain that no amount of money can make up for, you could have financial hardships and other challenges to work through, such as helping...
Traumatic brain injuries can have long lasting effects
People who have been involved in a serious collision with a massive tractor trailer, may suffer from a myriad of injuries. One of the most common injuries resulting from these accidents is traumatic brain damage. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vehicle accidents are the second leading...
How do you plan to return to work after your injury?
You hurt yourself at work recently, and while you have a personal injury case to navigate, you also want to get back to work ASAP. How should you return as efficiently as possible? FlexJobs offers tips to help you return to the workplace. Get back to earning an income and...
Collision with semi-truck kills pedestrian
The sheer size of the semi-trucks and tractor-trailers one sees on New Jersey's roads and highways is often what makes them seem so intimidating. Yet people typically take comfort in the assumption that those driving these massive vehicles are well-trained in their operation, and thus quite capable of keeping those...