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Now that the states are authorizing the re-opening of businesses to different degrees, businesses, large and small, want immunity from their workers if the business fails to provide a safe workplace.

Senator Tom Cotton, US Senator of Kansas, has introduced legislation in the US Senate to return pharmaceutical manufacturing to the USA.  Before the Corona Virus crisis, no one paid much attention to our nation's increasing dependency on the Communist Chinese for our medicine supply.

The Corona Virus has brought out the best of us but is has also brought out some really thorny problems. To name a few, the USA's dependency on Communist China's production of our basic medicines that we have all grown dependent upon.

Here is a very real hypothetical situation that I would try to classify as a Georgia workers' compensation injury claim.

It really “bugs me” when insurance company claim adjusters and their lawyers downgrade my client's mental health after my client has sustained not only a serious injury but has submitted to lengthy and painful surgery and is in or needs pain management treatment.

There are a number of different types of depression.  The 5th Edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders lists nine distinct types.  The type that I deal with in workers' compensation/job injury cases is what we would call situational depression.

Another area we fine-tuned in recent years is how to make a persuasive medical cost projection in a case. You may have been treated by a local chiropractor for 10 sessions. Then the doctor orders an MRI of your neck and discovers a herniated disc.

This is a very difficult concept to grasp yet it is so clearly a large value driver for proposals of settlement. There are a number of elements. See my FAQ on “What is an FCE”, “Permanent Impairments”

I am sure you have heard of the statement made by those of us who hate “big” anything:” I don't want to be treated like a number. Treat me like a real person.” Well, here is the bad news.

Nerve blocks, facet joint blocks, nerve ablations, are all in the “bag of tricks” used by pain management doctors to treat you after chiropractic or orthopedic care does not help you any longer.