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ARE YOU BEING FOLLOWED? SURVEILLANCE AND LONG TERM DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS
When individuals apply for disability benefits, many insurance companies will hire private investigators to perform surveillance. Insurance companies do this in an effort to prove...
PROTECTING YOUR WORKER’S COMPENSATION RIGHTS: REPORT ALL INJURIES & REPORT THEM CONSISTENTLY
Two of the most common reasons why worker’s compensation claims are denied involve when and how the injury was reported. Often, the insurance company will...
PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY: MINIMUM DOES NOT MEAN MAXIMUM
One of my pet peeves practicing worker’s compensation law is the assignment of permanent partial disability (PPD) by some treating physicians and most independent medical...
WHAT REMEDIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR MY DISCRIMINATION CASE?
If you believe you have been discriminated against and are considering whether to take the initial step of filing a complaint, you may be wondering,...
3 Questions Determine Unemployment Eligibility
In these tough economic times, as the unemployment rate in Wisconsin hovers around 7.8%, more and more families are relying on unemployment benefits to put...
RESTAURANT WORKERS: WHAT YOUR EMPLOYER CAN AND CAN’T DO
Sometimes employers use illegal practices to pay tipped employees (including servers, wait staff, busboys, bartenders, bellhops, counter personnel who serve tipping customers, and valets). After...
Legal and Illegal Employer Paycheck Deductions
Permissible and Impermissible Employer Deductions from Your Paycheck It’s a common theme: your employer approaches you and says that he is deducting wages from your...
WORKERS ARE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES CAUSING LIMP, SCARS, AMPUTATIONS, OR OTHER DISFIGUREMENTS
Insurance companies are required to pay permanent disability benefits to an employee whose work injury has caused permanent pain, partial or complete loss of use...
EMPLOYERS MUST STOP SEXUAL ORIENTATION HARASSMENT
In case there was any doubt, it is now clearly the law that an employer may not allow co-workers to harass an employee on the...