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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

March of the Blogs - Texas Appellate Law Blog

Posted on March 30, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Continuing Work in Congress to Reduce Social Security?s Backlog

Posted on March 30, 2009
With the average waiting time to get a hearing before an administrative law judge taking well over a year, Congress is always considering ways to reduce Social Security?s disability backlog. Claimants are often required or at least encouraged by theirlong-term disability insurance companies to file for Social Security Disability benefits...

March of the Blogs -

Posted on March 29, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

March of the Blogs - Build A Solo Practice

Posted on March 28, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

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Friday Fun

Posted on March 27, 2009
Not so much fun as fascinating, this is a collection of photographs of every street corner in Manhattan.

March of the Blogs - Environmental Crimes

Posted on March 27, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Houston Hospital Agrees to $10 Million Settlement of Medicare Fraud Allegations

Posted on March 27, 2009
The AP reports that, according to a statement from the Justice Department Thursday, "One of Houston's most prestigious hospitals has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle allegations it defrauded the federal Medicare program." Under the agreement, the Methodist Hospital in Houston will pay $9...

Witnesses Tell Senate UnitedHealth May Have Defrauded One In Three Insured Americans

Posted on March 27, 2009
CQ Healthbeat (3/27) reports, "UnitedHealth Group officials are in for an unpleasant experience at a Senate hearing next week - if a set-up session on Thursday was any indication." At a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing today, witnesses "described how health insurers routinely defrauded millions of patients who sought out-of-network care by paying less than the insurers owed for medical bills...

March of the Blogs - California Personal Injury Blog

Posted on March 26, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Report Calls for Separate Food Safety Administration

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Los Angeles Times reports that a paper issued Wednesday by Trust for America's Health in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has "called on the Obama administration to put someone in charge of safeguarding the food supply and to create a Food Safety Administration...

Investigation Finds That Surgeon Fell Asleep While Operating

Posted on March 25, 2009
Very high on the list of things I do NOT want to happen during surgery is having my surgeon fall asleep. That's apparently what happened last summer in Massachusetts, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Here are excerpts: When Dr. Loren J. Borud began his first case at about 8 a...

Family Fights For Right To Sue Military Over Medical Malpractice

Posted on March 25, 2009
The CBS Evening News (3/24, story 5, 3:40, Couric) reported, "About a year ago, we brought you the tragic story of Marine Sergeant Carmelo Rodriguez. Military doctors noticed he had melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, but they left it untreated and Rodriguez died...

Judge Rules That Congressman Is Immune From Lawyer's Questions

Posted on March 25, 2009
The AP reports, "A judge has ruled Sen. Saxby Chambliss doesn't have to answer questions from a lawyer suing Imperial Sugar on behalf of victims of the explosion at the company's Georgia refinery last year." The lawyer, Mark Tate, who is representing "families of six employees killed in the blast and five injured workers, subpoenaed Chambliss in hopes of asking him if the company sought his help to discredit a whistleblower and discourage workers from suing...

March of the Blogs - The Mac Lawyer

Posted on March 25, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Fisher-Price High Chairs Recalled After Child Injured

Posted on March 25, 2009
Fisher-Price has voluntarily recalled 24,000 convertible high chairs after a report of a child falling out and fracturing his skull when a seat back detached. Consumers should stop using the chairs immediately. The Fisher-Price high chair, called the 3-in-1, converts from a high chair to a toddler booster...

Waiting for My Day in Court . . . or Waiting for Godot?

Posted on March 24, 2009
Every year Social Security gets just a little further behind in giving the disabled their ?day in court.? It is very hard, as a lawyer and officer of the court, to explain to clients why the wait is so long. The short answer is a lack of resources. Social Security has many claims to process and a limited number of staff to process those claims...

March of the Blogs - Nerino Petro's CompuJurist.com

Posted on March 24, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Merck Says It Is "Target" of Federal Investigation Involving Vioxx

Posted on March 24, 2009
The AP reports, "Merck & Co. said Monday it received a letter from federal prosecutors notifying the company it is 'a target' of a grand jury investigation involving the painkiller Vioxx [rofecoxib], which Merck pulled from the market in 2004." The company said the investigation, which it "has previously disclosed," has "been ongoing since 2004...

Federal Preemption Seen as Putting Consumers at Risk

Posted on March 23, 2009
In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register Joel Olah, executive director of aging resources of central Iowa, wrote, "Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of medical-device manufacturers and against consumers in a case that has ramifications on the individual rights of thousands of Iowans...

March of the Blogs - Legal Research & Writing Pro

Posted on March 23, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Stimulus Bill Gives COBRA a Boost

Posted on March 23, 2009
As reported in the Dallas Morning News, a little-noticed provision of the stimulus bill signed last month by President Barack Obama may give the growing ranks of unemployed workers some relief with their medical bills. COBRA is the federal law that gives laid-off employees the right to continue their health insurance for 18 months, but at their own expense...

Many Public Pools Struggle to Comply With New Drain Law

Posted on March 23, 2009
The AP reported, "Nearly three months after a federal deadline to make public swimming pools safer, many have yet to be fitted with equipment aimed at keeping children safe from the powerful and sometimes deadly suction of drains." Now, "industry groups say public pools were given too little time to comply, and manufacturers of drain covers and pumps weren't able to keep up with heavy demand from the new law...

March of the Blogs - Home Contractor vs. Homeowner

Posted on March 22, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

March of the Blogs - Sui Generis

Posted on March 21, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Friday Fun

Posted on March 20, 2009
What's your least favorite sound ?fingernails on a chalk board? Coughing? Creaky door hinges? Vote for the worst sound in the world at Sound101, and compare your votes with those of other people.

March of the Blogs - Staring at Strangers

Posted on March 20, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

Food Company CEOs Blame Third-Party Audits for PCA Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on March 20, 2009
The AP reports on "new documents and pictures" released Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's investigations subcommittee detailing unsanitary conditions at facilities owned by Peanut Corp. of America, the company "at the center of a nationwide [salmonella] outbreak that has sickened nearly 700 people and is being blamed for at least nine deaths...

CPSC Bans Sale of Youth Motorcycles, ATVs

Posted on March 19, 2009
The AP reports that because of the recent lead law passed by Congress, children "will not be able to get dad to buy a miniature version of his motorbike so they can train and maybe compete in the many mini-motorcycle events held in communities around the country...

Industry Group Calls for Ban on Drop-Side Cribs

Posted on March 19, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that in the wake of a rash of deaths and injuries of infants in drop-side cribs and the resultant recalls, a coalition of manufacturers is calling for a ban on this type of crib. "Malfunctioning drop-side cribs have been blamed in incidents in which babies were trapped or strangled when the cribs gave way...

March of the Blogs - I Heart Tech

Posted on March 19, 2009
For the month of March, I am going to highlight blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas...

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