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All personal injury cases do not have to end in a lawsuit in order for a victim to be compensated. In fact, a majority of personal injury cases end in settlements, not trials.When you file a claim in a personal injury case, the other party has three choices: they can...
The Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby established that closely-held corporations can both hold and exert religious beliefs. In Burwell, the Court ruled 5-4 that Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood Specialties, and any other closely held corporations could be...
A new part of the Affordable Care Act goes into effect next year that requires employers with 200 or more employees to enroll new full-timers in a company health care plan automatically unless they say otherwise. The provision came from the success of automatic...
Work relationships are evolving in the digital age, and so is the employment law that governs them. When you're telecommuting, you may talk to or interact with people daily and yet have never met them in person. So what happens if you have a dispute with your employer...
When you've been injured due to negligence by another party, the most important thing is getting well. In most cases, that means getting the money you need to pay hospital bills, lost wages and rehab. Unfortunately, three big mistakes can get between you and your...
A new study cites failure to diagnose and medication errors as the most common reasons for medical malpractice lawsuits in the U.S.Failure to DiagnoseA 2013 study by the journal BMJ Open found that failure to diagnose is the most common medical malpractice claim. One...
A Cabell man is filing a lawsuit against Pike Electric and the driver of one of its trucks after his daughter was injured in a collision.Elsa Meade was riding with a friend on I-64 when a Pike Electric truck driver crashed into the car she was in. Meade sustained...
When you leave a job in West Virginia, whether you quit with notice, quit without notice or were fired, your employer has to pay you for hours worked. But what if your employer hasn't paid you in the time allowed, and wont' return phone calls, emails or see you in...
You've probably heard someone say that employers can't give bad references because they are afraid that they will be sued for them, or that employers can only verify employment dates, not job performance. That isn't true.There's not a single federal or state law that...
Age-related discrimination claims are on the rise: between 1997 and 2007, there were between 16, 000 and 19,000 age-related discrimination claims filed each year. But since 2008, those numbers have risen to between 23,000 and 25,000 claims each year. At the same time,...