Driving is a privilege in Missouri, just as it is in all the other states. For this reason, when you sign up for a driver’s license, you will be providing implied consent to a couple of things. One of these is the consent to yield to a chemical test if you are...
If you are injured on the job, it can impact your life and financial situation. While you may be able to recover workers’ compensation benefits from your employer, you need to ensure you take the right steps after an accident to avoid issues. Keep the following in...
Police officers will be watching the roads closely throughout the holiday season. They want to ensure that they don’t allow impaired drivers on the roads, but this could mean that they pull over people who haven’t been drinking. Police officers need to have...
What would you do without your back to support you through life? Depending on the severity of a back injury, it could take weeks or months to return to your former activity level and independence. Many Missouri industries come with a risk of suffering workplace back...
The basic symptoms for many medical conditions are quite similar. The common cold and lung cancer may have numerous overlapping symptoms. Someone slowly developing an autoimmune condition could easily ignore their symptoms because they are often mild at first....
Do you know if your job poses a risk of eye injuries? According to data analyzed in 2019, more than 18,000 occupational eye injuries occur annually in the U.S. You probably do not worry much about on-the-job eye injuries unless you weld for a living. However, welding...
You’ve suffered an injury or developed a chronic condition that prevents you from working, so you did the only rational thing: You filed for Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits. Now, you sit and wait. In fact, you can expect to wait between three and five months...
If you’re a parent, you know how it feels when your teenager is beginning to learn how to drive. You’re probably very nervous. Some of this has to do with social situations, as parents worry about their children gaining a new degree of freedom. But there’s also just a...
When you get divorced, you may want to consider using a qualified domestic relations order. This is usually referred to as a QDRO. It’s a type of legal order that can be on file to help divide financial assets. The benefit of using a QDRO is that it can set up ways to...
Health care work is a thankless job. When someone’s injured, often, it’s a nurse or emergency medical team who gets to a patient in need first. People come in day and night with injuries of their own – many of whom are injured from workplace accidents, but when health...