Log Truck defects often leads to need of auto accident lawyers in Eastern NC. Log trucks are often coming out of the woods heavily laden with as many pounds of logs as they can as they get paid by the load. Improper equipment from the rough nature of...
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Underinsured Motorist Insurance for NC Traffic Collision injuries
Underinsured Motorist Insurance for NC Traffic Collision injuries may provide coverage above the North Carolina minimum limits. In North Carolina the minimum insurance limit to drive is thirty thousand dollars per person. If you have significant injuries or...
Add Medical Payments, Medpay, Coverage in North Carolina to your Auto Insurance Policy
Add Medical Payments Coverage, known as Medpay, in North Carolina to your Auto Insurance Policy. Medpay coverage is cheap, no fault coverage that can be purchased to pay for lost wages and medical expenses in North Carolina. Whether you have health...
Social Security Disability, SSI treating Physicians must get Controlling Weight
Social Security Disability, SSI Judges must give Plaintiff's treating physicians controlling weight. Board Certified Social Security Disability Attorney Susan O'Malley recently argued a Federal District Court Social Security Disability, SSI case in front of North...
What to do after an Injury in a Car Crash in Eastern NC
Car Crash? Injured? Just not sure what to do next? Often our clients are just not sure what to do immediately after a car crash. Injuries and emotions can get in the way of making good decisions. Therefore, we have created a short check list...
Report your North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Injury
In North Carolina an injured worker is required to report an injury at work to the North Carolina Industrial Commission within thirty days (30) of your injury and no greater than two (2) years of the date of your injury. N.C. Gen.Stat. § 97-22. Injuries are reported...
Coin Sized Button Battery Child Swallowing Danger: Parents Beware!
Button Batteries also known as coin cell batteries create a serious swallowing danger for children. Unlike a coin, rock or small toy, if a button battery is swallowed by a small child it does not just pass through the body, instead it can cause serious and life...
What You need to Apply for Social Security Disability, SSI
Board Certified Social Security Disability, SSI attorney Susan O'Malley's lists what she thinks you need to have and consider when applying for Social Security or SSI. Board Certified Social Security Attorney Susan O'Malley what you need to apply for Social Security,...
Why you should hire a trial lawyer for your injury case
Why do you need a trial lawyer for your serious injury case? On September 13, 2013 I was invited to try a mock personal injury trial to a room of approximately 100 personal injury lawyers from all over North Carolina at the North Carolina Advocates for Justice office...
Social Media after a Car Accident or Personal Injury
Social Media after a Car Accident or Personal Injury?? Our clients rarely ask whether they should post to their social media (Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc) after a car accident or injury case -- they just do. Our society is obsessed with instantly sharing what...