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P.I.S.S.D. -- Personal Injury, Social Security Disability

The title of this blog reflects Bob Kraft's attitude toward those government agencies and insurance companies that routinely mistreat injured or disabled people.
By Robert Kraft

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Last Entry: May 06, 2009 at 17:44:22

Studies On Chemical In Plastics Questioned - FDA

Posted on April 27, 2008
The Washington Post has an article today that illustrates the fallacy in the current trend of the Bush administration and the U.S. Supreme Court to push the doctrine of "preemption." This is the legal theory that basically states if a federal agency approves a product, then consumers are forbidden to file any claims for damages caused by that product...

Featured Link - FoodSafety.gov

Posted on April 26, 2008
There have been so many food recalls lately that some of us are losing weight just worrying about the safety of what we eat. The federal government has a site filled with information about food safety. There's lots of good stuff here. Here's the description from the site: FoodSafety...

Friday Fun

Posted on April 25, 2008
Are you having a really bad day at the office? Do you feel like freaking out and trashing your cubicle? The good news is that you don't have to do that in reality ? you can do it virtually, at CubicleFreakout.

Featured Link - Web 2.0 Directory

Posted on April 24, 2008
Are you one of those baffled by all the talk of Web 2.0? Here's the Wikipedia definition: Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users...

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"Fatal" Mistakes Social Security Disability Clients Make

Posted on April 24, 2008
This is a short list of mistakes we have seen our clients make over the years. Whether you are our client, another lawyer's client, or simply trying to represent yourself in a claim for Social Security Disability benefits, you should read this list carefully and maybe you can avoid making one of these "fatal" mistakes...

Reminder - Texas Auto Liability Minimum Limits Raised

Posted on April 23, 2008
I've written before about the woefully low minimum automobile liability insurance limits in Texas, and how they were going to changed in April 2008. Well, the time has finally come, and as of April 1, the minimum insurance requirements were increased under the Texas Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act...

Featured Link - Internet Crime Complaint Center

Posted on April 22, 2008
The federal government has a Web site where you can report all those Internet scam e-mails you get every day. Not that it will do any good, but maybe you'll feel better after complaining. Here's the explanation from the Internet Crime Complaint Center: The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)...

Average Processing Times For Social Security Disability Claims

Posted on April 21, 2008
The list of the most recently available average processing times for Social Security disability claims throughout the nation has been published by NOSSCR. The Dallas and Forth Worth offices rank closer to the top than to the bottom, but processing times across the country are abysmal and unfair to claimants...

Friday Fun

Posted on April 18, 2008
Do you like computer games where you have no chance of winning? How about quizzes that make you feel stupid? You like both those things? Then you'll just love The Impossible Quiz 2!

Featured Link - Case Management Resource Guide

Posted on April 15, 2008
The Case Management Resource Guide is an online listing of over 100,000 individual medical facilities, programs, companies, and organizations. The site is sponsored by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

Allstate Insurance Releases Documents As Ordered By Florida Court

Posted on April 14, 2008
I've written several times now about Allstate Insurance being banned from writing new policies in Florida until they released certain court-ordered documents. Allstate has now released those documents online. This is going to be deathly dull to almost everyone except a few interested parties, but I'm sure there will be some juicy little nuggets that will come to light eventually...

Co-Payments For Expensive Drugs Soar

Posted on April 14, 2008
Today's New York Times carries a story about the rising costs of prescription drugs ? even for people who have health insurance. The gist of it is that insurance carriers are raising the co-pay amount for the most expensive and popular drugs. Here are excerpts: Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases...

Beware Of A "Rootkit" Virus

Posted on April 14, 2008
These new rootkit viruses are driving people nuts. Here's a quick tip from Tom Mighell's Internet Legal Research Weekly: Viruses are tricky, but rootkits are especially diabolical. A rootkit is a program that digs deep to the root of your computer, and hides itself there...

Friday Fun

Posted on April 11, 2008
Here's a game that's right from the headlines ? try to snuff out the Olympic Torch to show your solidarity with Tibetan protesters!

Allstate Is Again Banned From Writing Policies In Florida

Posted on April 09, 2008
In the continuing saga of Allstate Insurance and the State of Florida, the latest news is that Florida's First District Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling, and has reinstated the prohibition on Allstate writing new insurance policies...

Drug Makers Near Old Goal: A Legal Shield

Posted on April 08, 2008
I wrote recently about the legal doctrine of pre-emption that is threatening to steal legal rights from American consumers. Now the New York Times has published a lengthy but excellent article on the subject of the legal shield sought by drug manufacturers...

Arthritis And Social Security Disability

Posted on April 07, 2008
According to the Arthritis Foundation, more than 27 million people are effected by Osteoarthritis and another 1.3 million people live with rheumatoid arthritis. These people can be your parents, your siblings, or even you! Arthritis is broken up into two listings by Social Security...

Disabled Often Wait Years For Social Security Disability Payments

Posted on April 06, 2008
The Dallas Morning News today published an article decrying the absurd delay between the time a disabled person files for Social Security disability benefits and the time an Administrative Law Judge finally makes a decision on the claim. Here are excerpts from the article, headlined "Disabled often wait years for Social Security payment": Now that most of the nation's 78 million boomers have entered their prime years for illnesses and disabilities, they're flooding Social Security with claims and creating an unprecedented backlog...

Featured Link - Public Library Of Law

Posted on April 05, 2008
The Public Library of Law bills itself as the world's largest free law library. For lawyers on a budget, or motivated non-lawyers, it's a great resource. Here's the site's description: Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That's why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law -- to make it easy to find the law online...

Telemarketers Losing Access To Texas Crash Victims' Phone Numbers

Posted on April 04, 2008
The Dallas Morning News reports today that the state is taking at least one small step toward protecting auto accident victims from unauthorized and sometimes illegal solicitation from medical clinics, body shops, and lawyers. As is, anyone who is involved in a collision in Dallas is exposed to literally dozens of phone calls offering free X-rays, free property damage estimates, and worst of all, legal representation...

Friday Fun

Posted on April 04, 2008
It's hard to avoid politics in an election year, and not much about politics these days is fun. But a new Web site, SexyPolitics.com, certainly fills a unique niche. It's really an educational site, with various political quizzes to test your knowledge...

Frivolous Disability Claims Are Overloading The Social Security Disability System

Posted on April 03, 2008
Lawyer who represent Social Security disability claimants have always known that the disability system is clogged up with frivolous claims. People, for one reason or another, who file a Social Security disability claim when they know they don't qualify...

April 2nd Is World Autism Awareness Day

Posted on April 02, 2008
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. One of many good resources for family members of those with autism is the AutismSpeaks Web site. Here are excerpts from the Wikipedia entry on autism: Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, and causes restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old...

Duck And Cover In Case Of Atomic Attack!

Posted on April 01, 2008
I promise I was doing some actual legal research yesterday when I somehow was redirected to this YouTube video. Then it seemed strangely appropriate for April Fool's Day. The video is about "Duck and Cover" in case of atomic attack. It was made in 1951...

Consumers Beware - Pre-emption By Preamble Steals Your Legal Rights

Posted on March 31, 2008
Recent actions by federal regulatory agencies, combined with a U.S. Supreme Court decision are extremely troubling to consumer advocates. The gist of the problem is that federal agencies under the Bush administration are taking the stance that their rules trump state court verdicts...

Government Now Helps Patients Compare Hospitals

Posted on March 29, 2008
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has just published a Web site that allows citizens to compare patient satisfaction with various hospitals. The site was described in a Dallas Morning News article today. Here are excerpts: For the first time, the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid posted online information (at hospitalcompare...

Friday Fun

Posted on March 28, 2008
How could you NOT love a game named Shuffle Snake Bites?

Featured Link - The American Chronic Pain Association

Posted on March 27, 2008
The American Chronic Pain Association has a great deal of information and resources on their Web site. Many of our personal injury clients and Social Security disability claimants must deal with chronic pain for long periods of time, and sites like this help our clients cope with their pain...

Roadside Assistance On Texas Highways

Posted on March 26, 2008
Have you received an e-mail saying that the Texas Department of Public Safety offers free roadside assistance and that the phone number is on the back of your Texas driver license? That's sort of true, but not exactly. If you have a roadside problem (NOT an emergency like a major car wreck), you can call that number on the driver license and DPS will pass along your information to the nearest local authorities, who may or may not offer roadside assistance...

Danger Ahead For The Social Security System

Posted on March 25, 2008
According to a CNN story today, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is warning about the same dangers I mentioned in a January post on this blog ? we're about to run out of money for Social Security and Medicare. Here are excerpts from the article: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, saying that Social Security is "financially unsustainable," called Tuesday for quick action to keep the system strong and released a report detailing the program's funding shortfalls...

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