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Pediatric Consultative Examination Reports

A medical professional who has been tapped by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to conduct a consultative examination of a child must include certain information in his report. The SSA mandates that the report containing an assessment of...

Disability Under the "Odd-Lot" Doctrine

The "odd-lot" doctrine is an avenue by which a worker may be found to be totally disabled based on unemployability rather than just the degree to which he is injured. It provides that, although a worker is not completely unable to work, his...

Workers' Compensation & SSDI

Injury While in the Course of Employment

Workers' Compensation Eligibility

It is a threshold matter that for an employee to be eligible to recover workers' compensation...

Employee's Failure to Obey Safety Rules as Statutory Defense

When an employee claims workers' compensation benefits are due to him based on an injury that occurred on the job, many states allow an employer to defend itself by presenting evidence that the employee wilfully disobeyed the employer's...

Social Security Benefits

Social Security benefits for spouses and surviving spouses are subject to reduction if the government worker receives a pension from a federal, state, or local government based on employment where Social Security taxes were not paid. The Social...