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You may wonder what your legal options are if you have been injured at work from someone committing a crime such as assault or robbery. Are you eligible for workers’ compensation benefits? Unfortunately, the likelihood of a violent encounter at work is relatively...
Attorney Richard L. Magill, partner at Heller, Maas, Moro & Magill Co., LPA. in Youngstown, has been appointed as section chair of the Ohio Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Law Section. This will be his second one-year term in the position. Section chairs...
Can you make it on less than $900 a month? In 2022, the maximum SSI benefit for an individual is $841 per month, and the average per person is $623. Think about it: Less than $900 a month to cover the basic necessities of rent, transportation, food, utilities, medical...
A hernia is a painful condition that occurs when an organ protrudes through a weak spot in the muscle lining of the abdominal cavity or groin. There are many things that can cause a hernia – from pregnancy to obesity to constipation. But one of the most common...
Ideally, everyone who suffers a work injury in Youngstown would fully recover. But this doesn't happen in the real world. Depending on things like the severity of your injury, your age and your underlying health, you might heal completely. Or you might only partially...
Many workers have transitioned to a work-from-home or hybrid work arrangement in recent years. As a result, the home can increasingly be the site of work-related injuries. A new bill in Ohio would limit workers’ compensation for injuries that occur in these...
Some of us have heard variations of this story: an employee feigns injury in order to obtain workers’ compensation benefits. However, in the vast majority of cases, this simply is not true. The image of fraud within the workers’ compensation is inaccurate. Studies...
Workplace injuries can happen on any type of job. From construction zones to office places, an accident on the job can still cost the employee thousands of dollars in medical bills. In order to earn the workers' compensation the injured employee needs, there are some...
Workers who suffer an accident at work don’t deserve economic losses for doing their job. Because of this, Ohio requires all employers to cover the medical expenses and lost wages of their injured or sick workers. Even if it is your right as a worker to get this...
When you apply for Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits in Pennsylvania, the state’s Bureau of Disability Determination (BDD) reviews your application and determines whether you are eligible. The Bureau processes an average of 145,000 applications each year. With...