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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...
If you’ve been hurt on the job in Ohio, workers’ compensation benefits can help ease the financial burden of missing work and dealing with injuries. Workers’ compensation benefits cover the full cost of any medical treatment you need for the work-related injury, along...
In Ohio, employees who are hurt in the course of performing their jobs are typically eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits to cover their medical care and help them recover from their injuries. If you need help pursuing a disputed workers’ comp claim for...
Attorney Richard “Pete” Magill, a partner in Heller, Maas, Moro & Magill Co. LPA, a Youngstown, Ohio law firm, recently took a leadership role in the Ohio State Bar Association. Magill is chairing the Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Law Section for a...
Social Security Disability (SSD) is a federal program that provides financial assistance to people who have medically diagnosed disabilities that prevent them from working. People who have worked and paid Social Security taxes for a certain number of years become...