According to Catherine Goldman, senior practitioner with Wake County Human Services, the home needs sharp regulatory eyes trained on it to protect residents. “These folks are at risk,” Goldman said Wednesday. Consequently, the home has a no-star rating due to problems like a smoking-related building fire, high rates of medication mistakes, electrical hazards and food […]
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Joey Hodgin has talked to a lot of injured workers. One concern that often arises, is an injured worker’s concern that they are “suing” their employer. For whatever reason, their employer, friend, co-worker, or family member has told the injured worker that he/she shouldn’t sue the company. The reality is that the injured worker isn’t
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Workers’ compensation; whether N.C. Nat’l Guard member was an employee pursuant to G.S. 97-2(2) when she sustained her injuries. The Court of Appeals held that the claimant was not an employee, as the term is defined in N.C. Gen. Stat. 97-2(2). The claimant was determined not to be on “State active duty” at the time
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A research company has received a grant of almost $ 9 million to study the effects of brain injuries of deployed servicemen. One reason is because the symptoms of a concussion may not be obvious, while things such as slower reaction time and memory impairments may persist. Similar to the high school proposal for testing
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I see more and more information every day about pools and summer activities, and the increased risk of traumatic brain injury and other serious injuries such as spinal cord injury and paralysis. Please do not let your kids dive heard first into pools or natural water areas without knowing exactly what lies beneath! Scope out
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Document, document, document. According to Joey Hodgin, one of the best things an injured worker can do is to save every scrap of paper they receive subsequent to an injury in the workplace. These documents would include check stubs, W2 forms, letters from their employer, letters from the worker’s comp insurance company, any Industrial Commission
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The claimant was an assistant principal. While at work the claimant intervened to break up a fight between two students. As a result of the intervention, the claimant fell backwards and contended that his knee and back were injured in the fall. However, the claimant failed to provide sufficient expert testimony as to causation between the
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Chronic seizures caused by traumatic head injuries may result from chemicals released by the brain’s immune system attempting to repair the injured site, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Studies like this are exciting because they give hope to further treatments for underlying conditions caused by traumatic brain injuries.
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I have several friends who have had multiple deployments to Iraq. This concerns me for obvious reasons, but one of which is the severity of the wounds being suffered by our troops. The incidence of brain injury for our soldiers is increasing at ever faster rates, given the types of weapons being used by the
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Senior partner and founder of the HensonFuerst Nursing Home Litigation Division, Thomas W. Henson, Sr., was featured on a July 8 blog entry hosted by Harry Newton, in which Tom stressed the importance of regular colonoscopies for men and women. As a six year survivor of colorectal cancer, Tom knows first-hand the importance or regular
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