Posts by Rocky McElhaney
“Don’t Slip!”- Warning Enough To Dismiss Postal Worker’s Injury Claim Against Homeowners
It was a blustery cold day in Harris County, Texas when the National Weather Service issued a potential freeze warning. A postal worker entered onto the property of a customer whose address was part of his normal mail route. The postal worker walked on the sidewalk as usual up to the unit where he met…
Read MoreCan I Get My Social Security Disability Benefits with a Degenerative Disc Disease Diagnosis?
What is Degenerative Disc Disease? Degenerative Disc Disease is a chronic condition which can cause different forms of pain such as aching, burning, stinging or stabbing sensations. The pain may even radiate to other extremities. Degenerative Disc Disease, or DDD, is cited most frequently in individuals between ages 30 and 50 years old. It occurs…
Read MoreThe Top 3 Ways Hotel Fitness Centers Can Compromise Your Safety
Believe it or not, there are a number of things that can go wrong in a Hotel Fitness Center. At some hotels, fitness centers are used frequently and tended to often to keep up with the crowd. However, hotels that may not have a lot of guest frequent their fitness center, may not have someone…
Read MoreTricky Territory: Who's to Blame in a Parking Lot Accident
Surprisingly, twenty percent of all insurance claims filed are for car accidents occurring in parking lots according to the Institute for Highway Safety. Most parking lots are privately owned. That means that they fall under private property driving laws which are put in place to protect both the general public and the owner. Unless an…
Read MoreWhat Your State Doesn't Know About Zip Lines Could Kill You
In Lexington, Kentucky, at the Red Mile Crawfish Festival an 11 year-old girl’s zip line snapped as soon as she took off from the platform, causing her to fall 20 feet. While investigating the freighting scene, police discovered that the carabiner clip on her harness was broken. In Sevierville, Tennessee, after failing to properly attach…
Read MoreYOU ARE NOT IN GOOD HANDS WITH ALLSTATE
By the time Sharon Lane was rear-ended on September 9, 2010 on her way to work by a careless uninsured driver on Interstate 40 in Nashville, she had been paying premiums for car insurance to Allstate for 16 years. She paid extra money each month to have uninsured motorists coverage to protect her and her family…
Read MoreCan I Trust My Nurse Case Manager?
In Tennessee, not every injured worker is going to interact with a nurse case manager, but many do. I can’t count the times a new client has expressed some concern about whose side the nurse case manager is on. I tell people to be careful who they trust, and remember who hired the nurse case…
Read MoreWhy Do I Have to Pay Back My Health Insurance From My Settlement?
Every time I give a client a breakdown of their settlement to let them know where each and every penny is going, they are shocked that a portion of their recovery has to go to their health insurance. Clients will ask, and rightfully so, why should my insurance company get paid from my settlement? Because you have…
Read MoreCan I sue my co-employee for negligence that caused my work injury?
Rocky McElhaney Law Firm has helped hundreds of workers who have been hurt on the job. The ways they have been hurt vary from a saw malfunctioning and cutting them, slipping on spilled liquids in a warehouse, to wrecks on the interstate. One common situation we’ve seen is that the worker is injured because a…
Read MoreWhat is a contingency fee?
Attorney fees are the center of most lawyer jokes. Some people do not know, or understand, how lawyers are paid. While there are many new payment methods breaking through, there are a couple of traditional ways that lawyers get paid – by the hour, and on a contingency fee basis. The hourly rate of a lawyer…
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