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Getting Ready for Your Social Security Disability Hearing – Part I
As soon as you receive a notice that your hearing has been scheduled, please contact your attorney immediately. This is necessary to ensure that up to date medical records and information is available to the Administrative Law Judge who will hear your case. It also gives a final opportunity to…
Post-Hearing Medical Examinations
Occasionally, a Judge will have a question about the claimant’s medical status that comes up during the hearing, which he/she does not believe is properly addressed in the existing medical evidence. This will result in the scheduling of a post-hearing consultative examination paid for by the Social Security Administration. While…
Forklift accidents declining, but still injure and kill workers
The next time you drive your car, think about how often you see semi-trucks towing containers, box trucks or other commercial delivery vehicles sharing the road with you. Chances are you see them so often that you do not think about how prevalent they are in delivering the materials and…
Travel Expenses
If a claimant has to travel more than 75 miles one way to a hearing they can receive reimbursement for expenses. If travel expenses are requested, a form must be filled out and submitted to the Social Security Administration.
Worker’s compensation and medical marijuana: What is covered?
Before North Carolina ended its legislative session in August, a bill passed recognizing the therapeutic effects of marijuana. The North Carolina Epilepsy Alternative Treatment Act allows individuals with a certain form of epilepsy to use a type of marijuana, or hemp extract, as a treatment as long as it is…
Video Hearings
Increasingly, the Social Security Administration is conducting hearings by video. Whether or not this makes sense in your case is a matter to discuss with your attorney. Sometimes, your lawyer’s familiarity with the local judges outweighs any possible benefit of a slightly quicker hearing date with a judge from another…
Are independent contractors covered by workers’ compensation?
As a general rule, Charlotte and Mecklenburg employers with three or more employees must have workers’ compensation insurance. Employers may satisfy the requirements of the law by qualifying with the North Carolina Industrial Commission as self-insurers in lieu of obtaining insurance through a traditional carrier. The three-employee rule does not…
Unemployment Insurance and Social Security Disability
The receipt of unemployment insurance during a time period of claimed disability often comes up in social security disability hearings. A problem exists because in order to obtain unemployment benefits, a person must certify that he/she is “willing and able to work.” While the law does not prohibit this from…
What is a Form 18 for work accident claims?
If you have been injured in the workplace, then it is at least possible that you can make a claim for workers’ compensation benefits. But, how do you take this general knowledge and apply it to your specific injury situation? One of the most important things that you must do…
Using Your Own Vocational Expert
Occasionally, especially for claimants who are also receiving workers’ compensation benefits, it may be possible to utilize vocational expert testimony from the workers’ compensation or personal injury case in the social security claim. This vocational expert is generally “friendly” to the claimant is more likely to provide the kind of…
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