Connecticut Injury Attorney Blog

Investigating and pursuing truck accident claims involves both traditional methods of accident investigation and Legal Discovery with Federal Law and regulations that may affect the outcome of the lawsuit. Unfortunately, given the size and mass of Trucking rigs on our roads, resultant collisions with passenger cars are often tragic, yielding all manner of fatal injuries, Brain injuries, serious fractures and paralysis. Common experience and statistics detailed below bear this point out. What is not so commonly understood nor intuitively obvious is the impact that Federal law has on regulating the conduct of commercial Trucking operators and therefore, the Discovery needs of Plaintiff's lawyers litigating such claims on behalf of injured clients or the Estates of those who did not survive such accidents.

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In Theory, every work related injury should be documented in a timely manner by one's employer and there should be minimal dispute about whether an injured worker in Connecticut is entitled to Workers compensation benefits. In actuality though disputes about vocational injuries and disease , are often defended and administered by insurance companies and administrators in a manner which necessitates early retention of lawyer in order to obtain the benefits due and maintain entitlements to same throughout the life of the claim. The concept of a no fault based system of compensating injured workers appears to have its origin in Germany in the early 19th centruy. This development coincided with the advent of the industrial revolution which brought dangerous new workplaces into existence such as railroads, factories, mines and modern construction and engineering worksites. This in turn led to accompanying increases in injuries, deaths and new work-related diseases. The concept soon spread to other European countries and eventually the United States of America. Today, virtually every state has some type of workers' compensation system with the essential objective of providing a prompt mechanism of payment to an injured worker for medical bills, lost wages and longer term compensation for the impact of permanent loss of function to particular body parts. A worker inured in Connecticut does not assume the risk of injury and may receive benefits even if the injury was brought about as a result of their own carelessness. The test is whether the injury arose out of and in the course of employment. There are a few exceptions to this general rule and it is best to check with a Firm that handles workers compensation law to be on the safe side.

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September 19, 2009
Posted In: Recent News , Nursing Home Abuse And Neglect , Fractures , Brain Injury , Wrongful Death

By Paul Levin on September 19, 2009 12:18 PM | Permalink
The consequences of Nursing Home abuse and neglect to Connecticut's elderly and most vulnerable residents does not often make headlines in Connecticut's newspapers and television broadcasts. Perhaps some of the reason for this is that when an elderly resident of a Nursing Home or rehabilitation facility falls and fractures their hip or sustains a serious head injury the intial reaction is too often a misplaced sense that "these things happen when one gets old." The same reaction might occur when an elderly person chokes on their food which may actually stem from a diet not sufficiently monitored for reduced mastication function or develops painful bed sores and skin ulcers as a result of an insufficient physcial activity plan and/or inadequate interventions related to periodic position changes while resting in bed. The problem is that these sorts of events while commonplace occurences are not supposed to happen while in the protective custody of a qualified Nursing Home or Rehab facility.

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