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One thing my clients often ask me is How can I get Permanent Total Disability under Indiana Worker’s Compensation Law? Or, Do I get PTD if I am badly injured? Permanent Total Disability, or PTD, is reserved for injured Indiana employees whose i … [Read more...] about Am I entitled to Permanent Total Disability?

Below is the text of an article that I will soon publish in a local magazine.  This is important reading!  Indiana expungement law changed dramatically on July 1, 2013.  A lot of the information you find online may have been published before the new l … [Read more...] about Indiana Passes New Criminal Expungement Law

Indiana Senate Bill 005 amends Indiana’s Hospital Lien Statute. At its core, the law remains the same – hospitals can claim a lien against any settlement or judgment that a victim of a personal injury recovers from a negligent defendant. This is an im … [Read more...] about Indiana’s Hospital Lien Statute Amended – Does it Benefit the Injured?

Every once in a while, we hear from workers or the families of workers who have a heart attack at work or a stroke at work. The first question always is this: Is a heart attack or stroke covered under Indiana Worker’s Compensation Law? The answer i … [Read more...] about Heart Attacks and Strokes – Are They Covered Under Indiana Worker’s Compensation Law?

If you have had a career in coal mining, you may very well be suffering from black lung disease, also known as Coalworker’s pneumoconiosis. You may have this disease even if you do not exhibit the most common symptoms, which are shortness of breath an … [Read more...] about Black Lung Disease

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion in the case Hill v. Beta Steel Corp. In this case, the employee suffered a back injury while at work in 2004. He received worker’s compensation benefits until 2006, but in 2007 he died in his sle … [Read more...] about Indiana Court of Appeals Draws The Line on Death Benefits