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25 Mar

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25 Mar

logoCrucial Information regarding your social security credits.

Each week you work, money is taken out of your check to fund the social security disability fund. If you work for approximately 6 continuous years you will earn 40 social security credits. Once you earn 40 social security work credits, you are eligible to be approved for social security Disabilty payments if and only if, you can prove to the federal government that you are disabled. WHAT PEOPLE DONT KNOW ABOUT THEIR SSD CREDITS. If you stop working completely, your SSD credits expire in 5 years. If this happens you are no longer able to obtain SSD benefits even if you are disabled. I am finding more and more people in their 50s and early 60s that don’t know that their credits expire. Many people stop working, thinking they will get better and go back to work. They call my office after their credits have expired. This is a huge problem. Please keep in mind that even though you have worked for 20 to 40 years, your SSD credits expire in 5 years. You must file and prove Disabilty before your credits expire.

11 Mar

logoShould I get a Social Security disability attorney for my initial application and first appeal?

While you can file the initial application and the initial appeal on your own, I would highly recommend that you obtain experienced attorney help, from an attorney that specializes in Social Security cases. I say this because the initial application asks you many questions that can be used against you at a later time. How you answer the questions on the initial application can have a major impact on if you’re case is denied initially and/or denied if you how youon appeal. Again I would suggest that you hire counsel to advise you for the entire process of applying for Social Security disability

10 Mar

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Basic questions that are asked by the judge at your Social Security Disability Hearing. Your testimony is crucial.
What is the maximum amount you can lift?
How far can you walk?

What do you do from the time that you get up in the morning until the time that you go to bed?

How long can you stand? How long can you sit?
What medications do you take and do you have any side effects?
Are you able to prepare meals at home? What household chores do you do?

Do you drive? Do you do Your own shopping?
Why did you stop working at your last job? Would you be able to do sedentary or light work?

The judge may ask you to list the impairments Or problems that prevent you from working.

These are the basic questions that many judges will ask at a Social Security disability hearing. In answering these questions you should answer the question directly and be able to give an example of how walking, lifting, doing chores exacerbates your issues. If you have problems with concentration, sleep, and or memory, you should be able to give the judge examples of how that affects you in your every day life and prevents you from working. The testimony that you give them your social security disability hearing, to the judge, is the most crucial factor in whether not you will be approved for Social Security disability benefits.

Knowing how to answer the questions at a Social Security disability hearing does not necessarily follow the rules of common sense. Therefore you should contact and experience Social Security attorney in Michigan to help you with your Michigan Social Security disability hearing.

04 Mar

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Please write your senator or house member regarding the possibility of evidence-based medicine in Michigan. Evidence-based medicine was created by the insurance companies to take the decision out of your treating doctors hands so that they ( your treating doctor) do not make the decisions regarding your care.
The insurance company will go by specific treatment protocols written by insurance doctors. It would simply look at your condition on a list, and that your condition needs, for example, four weeks of physical therapy and that is all they would be responsible for.
Why would individuals ever want to take the decision making ability of your treating doctors and give it to the insurance company doctors. It is a bad idea for Michigan.

29 Feb

logoWhen contemplating settlement of a workers compensation case in Michigan, do yourself a financial favor and contact an experienced Michigan workers compensation Attorney for advice. I am seeing injured claimants at the comp bureaus in Michigan with no representation. Be advised that the insurance companies and their attorneys have no ethical duty to look out for you or your families interest. Not everything they represent is necessarily true. The Magistrate will approve the settlement if it is a good deal, or a bad deal. If you tell him you want it, the settlement will be approved.
Call an experienced attorney, weigh your options, and don’t assume what the claims adjuster is telling you is factually or legally accurate.

26 Feb

Michigan workers compensation settlements are becoming very complicated. As the insurance industry shifts the liability, we all pay for in the price of goods and services, onto Medicare, Medicaid, your regular health insurance, unemployment etc…, all of these issues must be dealt with before your Michigan workers compensation case can settle. However, the injured worker has no choice. You must use your health insurance, Medicaid or Medicare when workers comp denies your medical treatment. Once the comp carrier denies your medical treatment advise your treating Doctor of the change in coverage. Once your comp denies coverage do use your other sources of medical coverage.

09 Feb

logologoBefore or after your case goes into litigation, be very careful what you put on social media sites. More and more, insurance companies and large employers are checking your Facebook, twitter, Instagram before they decide to pay your benefits.

After your case goes into litigation they will surely check your social media to see what activities you are engaged in.

Before your Worker’s Compensation case in Michigan gets very far, you may want to take down your social media sites. What you write,  do and where you go may influence the decisions of the insurance companies.

Please contact the law offices of David Zimmerman if you have any questions about your social media and Worker’s Compensation or Social Security.