Spring 1999
Volume 1: Issue 2
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- http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa/index.html
NCSA - National Center for Statistics and analysis - 'is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the traffic safety community, through data collection, analysis, and crash investigation activities.' - http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statstop.htm
The National Safety Council, "a not-for-profit, nongovernmental public service organization" links to: Accident Facts® 1998 | Accident Facts® Up-to-Date | International Accident Facts® | Estimating the Cost of Unintentional Injuries 1997 | More Information | Links to Other Sites - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa/codes/codes7.html
NHTSA links in Adobe Acrobat format to numerous Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) documents. - http://www.hwysafety.org/facts/fatal.htm
"Information in 'Fatality Facts' is based largely on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Virtually all facts and tables analyze deaths in motor vehicle crashes." From the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
MACINTOSH ATTORNEY LINKS -Back To Top
- http://www.mother.com/~randy/law.html
Quick links to ALL of the caselaw (opinions), statutes, and codes available on the Web. The fastest and most comprehensive resource for doing legal research on the Web! - The Law Office Software List for the
Macintosh Computer
http://www.macattorney.com or
http://www.mother.com/~randy/index.html
A comprehensive list of all the available software for law office use on the Macintosh computer, the premier computer for attorneys! Well over 170 products are listed! - Attorney's Toolbox: http://www.mother.com/~randy/tools.html
Cyberspace Tools For Attorneys and other Legal Professionals! - Mac-Attorney is the premier discussion
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This is the place to bring your questions, exchange tips, and to
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- http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/work.html
OSHA statistical data on illness/injury, by industry. - http://stats.bls.gov/search/osh_s.asp
Here is a search engine which "allows you to search through all the Safety and Health publications and tables that are currently available electronically. The source of these data are the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries." - What seems to be a good chiropractic narrative report of impairment is at http://www.drbackman.com/narrative_report.htm
WORKERS COMPENSATION -Back To Top
- http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/di/05/SSR-DI05toc.html
A very useful set of links to Social Security Rulings on Disability Insurance - Worker's Compensation - with links to statutory and regulatory basis, in a Table of Contents format. - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/di/04/SSR-DI04toc.html
The same for Period of Disability. - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/di/02/SSR-DI02toc.html
The same for Vocational Rehabilitation. - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/di/03/SSR-DI03toc.html
The same for Substantial Gainful Activity. - The Legal Information Institute has an overview page on Disability Law, with links to federal and state statutes at http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/disability.html
- The Institute also provides a Menu of Sources on Workers Compensation at http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/workers_compensation.html#menu
- There is a page with links to Workers Compensation State Laws & State Advocate Groups at http://www.medcheck.org/statlaws.html
- A New Mexico lawyer explains how disability is calculated in accordance with that state's Worker's Compensation Act, at http://www.eaglelink.com/genova/article.htm
- PATRICIA M. GETSON v.WM BANCORP et al. In Maryland, "the Workers' Compensation Commission and circuit court are not bound by the highest and lowest medical evaluations of impairment; nor must they take the average of the medical evaluations. The Commission and circuit court must assess the claimant's compensable disability by considering the medical evaluations as well as the effect the injury has had on the claimant's ability to perform his or her job." http://www.courts.state.md.us/TM/E93T168
- What happens to injured workers when they are denied treatment by insurers is the subject of two studies in Texas accessible from http://www.roc.capnet.state.tx.us/2-2.htm
- In McCabe v. North Dakota Workers Comp. Bur., 1997 ND 145, 567 N.W.2d 201, the North Dakota Supreme Court considered which version of the AMA Guides should be used to evaluate a claimant's impairment. See: http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/opinions/960336.htm
- In 1996 a Virginia appeals court upheld a ruling by the state's workers' compensation commission that "a claimant must show 'that the loss of use [of the legs] is quantifi[able] since a specific incapacity rating is required before permanent partial or total disability benefits may be awarded.'" http://www.lawyersweekly.com/va/opin/app/0675964.htm
- Here is a link to the widely cited U.S.
Supreme Court decision, with two dissents, which reversed and
remanded an Oregon Supreme Court decision on a "twilight
zone" case of workers' compensation. HAHN V. ROSS ISLAND
SAND & GRAVEL CO. 358 U.S. 272 (1959)
http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/Supreme/Flite/opinions/358US272.htm - Here is a Department of Labor Payment of Compensation Sub-part title: http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/regs/cfr/20cfr/toc_Part1-199/0010.0304.htm
- A good gerneral introduction to the concept of wrongful death action, for the layman, is at http://www.freeadvice.com/law/504us.htm
- In Ohio, a "Claimant who is a statutory beneficiary of an insured decedent can recover under the uninsured/underinsured provisions of the decedent's insurance policy even if the wrongful death claimant is not a named insured under the policy". [Holt v. Grange Mut. Cas. Co. (1997)] http://www.lweekly.com/oh/opin/sup/960764.HTM
- In re Amtrak "Sunset Limited" Train Crash. The crash, which caused forty deaths in 1993, happened because the skipper of a river vessel took a wrong turn and damaged a railroad bridge. District Court held that Alabama law prevailed over maritime law in ensuing wrongful death actions. Defendants appealed. Eleventh Circuit vacated and remanded. http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/sept97/96-6833.opa.html
- Whether maritime law or state law prevails in wrongful death actions has been litigated to the U.S. Supreme Court more than once. See THE TUNGUS V. SKOVGAARD 358 U.S. 588 at http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/Supreme/Flite/opinions/358US588.htm
- See also GOETT V. UNION CARBIDE CORP. , 361 US 340
(01-18-60).
http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/Supreme/Flite/opinions/361US340.htm - In Minnesota, "Recovery as 'next of kin' under the wrongful death statute is limited to blood relatives of the decedent who have suffered compensable loss, but is not governed by the law of intestate succession. Therefore, there is no legal impediment to recovery under the statute by the sibling of a deceased minor." http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/ctappub/9702/c7961497.htm
- In Maryland, "pecuniary and solatium damages are recoverable for the death of an unmarried child who is not a minor child if the child is 21 years old or younger or a parent contributed 50% or more of the child's support within the 12-month period immediately before the date of the death of the child. Pecuniary and solatium damages are also recoverable for the death of the parent of an adult child." http://www.semmes.com/publications/transportation/tr01sp97.htm
- In 1997 the Utah Supreme Court decided on how the statute of limitations applied in a wrongful death case. http://courtlink.utcourts.gov/opinions/supopin/jensen.htm
- The Alaska Wrongful Death statute is online at http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title09/Chapter55/Section580.htm
- "Tortious conduct that causes the death of another person is actionable in Wisconsin, as in other states. The statutes, rather than the common law, provide a specific remedy. There was no remedy until the Wisconsin legislature enacted one. The courts are quick to remind litigants that they may only recover that which the statutes allow." http://www.execpc.com/~japitts/twelve.htm