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Morgantown insurer offered $8,000 after a drunk-driver wreck - too fast?

A drunk-driver crash can leave a postal worker with real psychological injuries, and in West Virginia the clock keeps running even while the insurer acts like an early ER discharge means nothing serious happened.

ARTICLE by Tom Ratliff

My elbow may end my job before the missing records ever turn up

A Parkersburg meatpacking worker with a repetitive-use elbow injury can get trapped between workers' comp, outside insurers, and bad charting faster than most people expect.

ARTICLE by Rhonda Hatfield

Can I fire my Huntington lawyer if they ignore my PTSD after the wreck?

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that PTSD, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and sleep disruption are real injury damages in West Virginia, even when...

My kid was buried in a Huntington trench and now two states are fighting over who has to pay

A parent is trying to sort out a trench-collapse injury in Huntington when the child lives across the river and every insurer starts talking about "the other state."

ARTICLE by Rhonda Hatfield

Am I screwed if the loading dock had no barrier and insurance wants everything

What a Charleston fast food worker should photograph, save, and request immediately after a loading dock fall, especially when mental health is already in the record and a health insurer is talking like it owns the settlement.

ARTICLE by Danny Trent

Delayed Head Symptoms After a Roadside Work Injury

A roadside crew leader in West Virginia may not be stuck with the crash date if concussion symptoms showed up late and the real harm was not obvious at first.

ARTICLE by Sandra Elswick

That ladder folded, and now every insurer is trying to disappear

A farm worker in Morgantown got hurt when a defective ladder collapsed, and now the farm, the ladder company, and multiple insurers are all dodging the bill while a structured settlement gets pushed across the table.

ARTICLE by Earl Braxton

Can your immigration status sink a Charleston van fire claim?

A rear-end crash that turns into a vehicle fire is bad enough, and the insurer will still try to turn a minor violation and immigration fear into leverage.

ARTICLE by Roderick Lyons

screening guideline

Not a guarantee, a diagnosis, or a one-size-fits-all rule, a screening guideline is a medical recommendation about who should be tested for a disease, when testing should...

pattern and practice

What trips people up is this: one ugly claim decision usually is not enough. A pattern and practice means repeated conduct that shows a company is doing the same wrongful thing...

unreasonable delay

Not every slow response is an unreasonable delay. Insurance claims can take some time when records are missing, injuries are still being evaluated, or the facts are genuinely...

Workers’ Comp Rights for Visa Holders in West Virginia

If you get hurt on the job in West Virginia and your immigration status is tied to that employer, the workers' comp process can feel like a trap, but the claim system and your job status are not the same thing.

ARTICLE by Danny Trent

cognitive bias in diagnosis

You may see this in a medical record review, denial letter, or expert report as phrases like "anchoring," "premature closure," or "confirmation bias" during the diagnostic...

red flag symptom

Not every bad headache, fever, or bout of pain is a red flag symptom. The common mistake is thinking it means any severe complaint. What it actually means is a warning sign...

Can my Clarksburg boss threaten deportation if I file after an Uber crash?

$1,000,000. That is the big number that may be on the table if you were a passenger during an active Uber or Lyft trip. Your boss does not control that money, and your...

Parkersburg deadline panic: that wrist injury offer may be built on a lie

If your wrists were wrecked by keyboard work in Parkersburg and an adjuster tossed out a fake "policy limit" number, the real issue is whether you're in workers' comp, a lawsuit, or both - and which clock is already ticking.

ARTICLE by Danny Trent

differential diagnosis

A dangerous mistake can happen when symptoms are treated like a quick guess instead of a careful process: a serious condition gets missed, treatment goes the wrong way, and the...

Is my lawyer slow-walking the dashcam while my burn claim gets cheaper?

A bad steam-burn case can get undermined fast by hidden video, chatty adjusters, social media snooping, and a cheap settlement pushed before doctors know how deep the damage goes.

ARTICLE by Rhonda Hatfield

A missed abnormal finding can cost money, health, and legal leverage because treatment may be delayed while a condition worsens. In a claim, that delay can affect the value of...

delayed diagnosis

Money and case value often turn on timing: when a serious condition is found late, treatment can become harder, more expensive, and less effective. A delayed diagnosis happens...