As reported here on March 1, 2013, in our blog entitled, “Workers’ Compensation Pays Cash Benefits to Out of State Athletes,” California provides workers’ compensation benefits for injured pro athletes. California is unique in that it does this not only for our own athletes, that is players and former players…
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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PAYS CASH BENEFITS TO OUT OF STATE ATHLETES!
Did you know that retired professional athletes with non-California teams are receiving California Workers’ Compensation payments? Former pro athletes who previously played for non-California teams are eligible for and receiving money under California’s workers’ compensation insurance program. According to the Los Angeles Times, former Denver Broncos running back Terrell Davis,…
UNUM Provident Insurance – Bad Faith Insurance Practices?
We are investigating allegations of bad faith insurance practices and conduct by UNUM Insurance, also known as UNUM Provident Insurance, including allegations of UNUM conducting biased investigations in order to deny benefits to its own insureds. Insurance bad faith refers to a claim that insureds and sometimes others may bring…
10 Students Injured in Hemet High School Pedestrian Accident
We are receiving early reports of a serious pedestrian accident in Hemet, California, earlier today. The car versus pedestrian accident apparently occurred outside Hemet High School, and ten students of the high school were injured when they were hit by a car. The Hemet car accident resulted in three of…
“Hot Coffee” – Documentary Exposes How Corporations Try to Deny You a Fair Trial
We previously posted about the “Hot Coffee” documentary by Susan Saladoff, which exposes how corporations, like big insurance companies, spend millions of dollars so that injury victims do not receive fair trials and are not fairly compensated for their personal injury damages. They have used one case, the “McDonalds coffee”…
2 Killed in California Bicycle Accident Wrongful Death
The 17 year old driver of a Cadillac Escalade was allegedly driving erratically when he struck a family of bicycle riders, killing a father and his daughter in a tragic California bicycle accident wrongful death. The driver of the Cadillac sustained minor injuries in the Northern California bike accident. According…
Riverside Dog Attack Injures Young Boy
A Riverside dog attack on Friday resulted in dog bite injuries to an eleven year old boy. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Riverside dog bite occurred when a pit bull dog, belonging to a neighbor, somehow escaped from a leash and attacked the boy. The father of the…
1 Dead in Los Angeles Pedestrian Accident
A Los Angeles pedestrian accident in Koreatown on Sunday caused the death of a man who was walking on the sidewalk. According to the Los Angeles Times, an unidentified 73 year old woman first swerved her vehicle into oncoming traffic, then went off the road and up a sidewalk where…
Man Killed in West Los Angeles Accident
A man was killed on Thursday night in a West Los Angeles accident in which a gun in his vehicle apparently went off, hitting him in the head. The man, Anthony Camacho, was 20 years old. His vehicle then rear ended another vehicle, causing a West Los Angeles car accident.…
Vehicular Manslaughter Conviction for Corona Pedestrian Accident
In 2008, Rachel Elliott was killed when she was hit by a car in Corona, California. Elva Diaz, the driver of the vehicle that hit Elliott, was convicted last week of involuntary gross vehicular manslaughter, because she was allegedly intoxicated at the time of the pedestrian accident in Corona. Diaz,…