[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]S[/fusion_dropcap]ocial media is intertwined in our lives in ways we would not have believed even ten years ago. During this pandemic, social media is a great way to stay in touch with your friends and people that you are forced to be separate from. In many ways, however,
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]S[/fusion_dropcap]everal years ago, I was invited to join the Workplace Injury Litigation Group (WILG). This is a national organization of attorneys who represent injured workers. WILG has taken the position that people who are working and come down with Covid- 19 should be entitled to those benefits if
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As we all try to work through the coronavirus pandemic it’s important to remember that there are many things we can do to make sure that we avoid becoming ill and we avoid our coworkers becoming ill. I have included a couple of different links for your information. The first is a page from
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]P[/fusion_dropcap]sychological injury claims in Oregon have been very difficult since 1987. Under Oregon law, workers must prove that there were a series of events that actually happened at work that could cause stress in people and did cause that person to develop a diagnosis that is generally recognized
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]I[/fusion_dropcap] recently saw a claim where the injured worker had an accepted, fairly severe injury. The worker did not regularly see his doctor for the condition and the claim was administratively closed for failure to see the doctor. The worker did not hire an attorney until over a
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]A[/fusion_dropcap]pproximately ten years ago, I began having my clients sign a social media agreement. The agreement is that they will not post about their claim, their condition, or their functional abilities on social media. I began doing that as a consequence of a client who had a low
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color="" text_color=""]T[/fusion_dropcap]here are some changes happening at Moore & Jensen. Christine Jensen, after working in this law firm for 33 years, has decided to retire. I certainly have mixed emotions about it. On the one hand, I am very happy for her, that she is able to retire and
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color=""]T[/fusion_dropcap]he workers’ compensation system exists for many reasons. It exists for employers to allow them to avoid liability suits and to avoid a jury holding them accountable for injuring their workers. For workers it provides benefits, regardless of fault, and in theory it provides an expedited litigation system. What most
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I’ve talked in the past about when to hire attorneys (as soon as possible), and why to hire an attorney (an attorney is the only person in the workers’ comp system who is on the side of the injured worker, and whose fate is tied directly to the fate of the injured worker, because
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[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color=""]I[/fusion_dropcap]f you become disabled from your regular job as a consequence of your industrial injury, then you are entitled to be compensated for missing that time from work. At first, the statute appears fairly straightforward. A disabled worker is entitled to two-thirds of their average weekly wage, capped at
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