Recession Offers Business Opportunities
In a recession what are some of the growth opportunities for businesses? It seems as though it’s starting your own. Losing your job coupled with some low interest rates make the idea of entrepreneurship attractive for a variety of reason.
In fact, with more people out of work recession in fact see an increase in people launching their own small businesses. Read the rest of this entry »
DECLARE Chapter 11 – Give up in Chapter 7
Isn’t it funny that you make a ‘declaration’ in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, (when you face the bring and try restructure without going under). IT’s as if there’s some form pride in Chapter 11 vs. Chapter 7. Either way, creditors must still hate both.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/02/bankruptcy.html
Pictures of Your Slip & Fall
What’s perhaps the greatest asset when seeking adequate compensation for a slip or fall injury? Quite simply it’s pictures. A picture in this case would be worth a 1000 words. Pictures from multiple angles, with measurement tools or comparison objects, close ups, even a landscape shot, there’s no shortage of how many pictures you can take of a scene.
Help yourself build a case by ensuring your ‘evidence’ is substantial. Read the rest of this entry »
Pain Free Today – Painful Tomorrow
If you sign papers because you feel just fine today, what happens if your health deteriorates tomorrow? I know of some people who’ve been in car accidents, and 10 years later their body starts to break down. What recourse do they have?
The Minor Injury Regulations (“MIR”) provide a framework to determine what injures are ‘minor’ by the courts and therefore have damages ‘capped’ at a certain value. Read the rest of this entry »
Limiting Your Treatments after Injury
Is it true that you are entitled to certain insurance benefits from your own insurer, regardless of who was at fault? It’s true, in Canada these benefits are often called ‘Section B benefits’. However, insurers like to erroneously inform injured clients that they will only ‘authorize’ 21 treatments (of various kinds). This is not true. Read the rest of this entry »
Stop Metered Internet in Canada
No legal action yet, but you can bet political careers are about to end, and the CRTC, Canada’s telecommunications department, will lose in the latest attempt by the telecommunications oligopoly in Canada.
Because people are starting to rent less DVDs, watch less TV, and increasing their bandwidth use to watch online movies, TV, youtubes, the big companies want their billions in revenue through a different means. Read the rest of this entry »
Idaho Incentives for Early Graduation Relaxed
Seems as though the rules have changed if you’re a nerd in Idaho. The number of schools who can participate in a program that will permit students who graduate early access to scholarships. before there was a cap on the number of schools that could participate per district. Because the low number of participating schools lawmakers have eliminated that rule. So you can now, if you have smart students in your school, participate in a program that will permit advanced students a chance to get a chunk of change for their college years.
No word on how many schools have these types of studious teens….
Metered Data is a HUGE legal issue
Coming up to a newstand near you will be the heated debate on data.
You know the stuff, data in your cell phone, bandwidth for your internet.
There are two major issues coming to the forefront.
The first has to do with erroneous billing practices by ATT . Read the rest of this entry »
Superbowl Sex Trafficking
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/01/police-watch-sex-trafficking-ahead-super-bowl/
It seems there are groups who are out and about raising awareness against the expected influx of sex tourism amidst the Super Bowl festivities. We agree, sex trafficking is heinous (we make a distinction between this and legitimate sex work (in their respective states). However, does the data actually indicate that sex trafficiking increases during major events? Read the rest of this entry »
Unseen Doesn’t Mean Un-hurt
Soft tissue damage is usually unseen. That means to people around you your injuries seem like phantom boo-boos, but in reality you’re in real pain. Family, friends, and other loved ones need to show empathy to those with soft tissue damage as these injuries do not come with broken bones or prolonged bruising.
You may slowly find yourself doing less and less around the house because your injuries are getting worse and worse. To those around you it may seem as if you’re physically fine on the outside and are just getting lazy! Remember, just because it can’ tbe seen doesn’t mean you aren’t hurt!