Yesterday, officials from the N.C. Rate Bureau, NC Industrial Commission and the NC Press Association met and agreed to strike a law which made employers insurance policies private. While this is just an agreement and not actively in play right now, the Raleigh News and Observer reports that leaders do…
Why are we even talking about a “Chained CPI”? Where did it come from? Chained CPI is a phrase that has been popping up lately due to the “Fiscal Cliff” of 2013. The Fiscal Cliff is coming due to a set of laws that will go in effect starting midnight…
On Monday, the government announced that traffic related accidents which resulted in death continued on its historic decline and fell to its lowest level since 1949 according to a USA Today report. In 2011, a total of 32,367 people died as a result of a traffic related accident. This stat includes pedestrians…
Dr. April Pettit is an infectious disease specialist in Nashville, Tennessee at Vanderbilt University. When a patient of hers wasn’t responding standard treatments, she was concerned. After these standard treatments didn’t work, she spoke with the family of the patient. Through these discussions she found out that the patient had…
The following in a press release from the Social Security Administration on the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2013. In a nutshell, If you receive Social Security disability benefits, your monthly payment will increase in January of 2013 by 1.7 percent. If you would like more information on the Cost of…
Drug compounding is under the spotlight after a deadly breakout of fungal meningitis has caused 12 deaths and 112 cases across 7 states, including North Carolina. All of the cases involve a steroid injection given to patients with back pain. As ABC News reports, the specific strain causing the outbreak…
Yesterday, on our Facebook page, we posted an article from the Charlotte Observer about the expansion of the North Carolina Move Over Law which went into effect on October 1st. As a recap, the North Carolina “Move Over” Law was expanded to include utility and maintenance crews including tow trucks…
A newspaper’s in-depth examination of businesses that cheat workers by skimping on insurance coverage might spur important reforms, says workers’ compensation lawyer Ben Cochran of Hardison & Cochran. The Raleigh News &Observer recently published an investigative series called “The Ghost Workers”about businesses that cheat by misclassifying workers and buying a…
Yesterday, Wall Street 24/7 released an article that breaks down approximately 30,000 complaints from consumers about the safety of their vehicle. The article features the top 10 complaint receivers by the make of the car relative to the number vehicles sold. For more information on how this data was compiled,…
Michele Willis was involved in an accident in the winter of 2009 which resulted in a traumatic brain injury. After being medically worked on at the scene of the accident and a long hospital stay which included a complicated surgery, Willis woke up to a new way of life. After…
