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There’s a Korte’s Law! Who Knew?

16 Mar 2016 Comments off

I found it by the Google machine. According to Wikipedia: In psychophysics, Korte's law, also known more completely as Korte's third law of apparent motion, is an observation relating the phenomenon of apparent motion to the distance and duration between two successively presented stimuli. It was originally proposed in 1915 by Adolf Korte. A [...]

Greer, Shmeer

16 Mar 2016 Comments off

It’s springtime in Missouri, and to some hardened observers that not only means the blooming of the Show-Me State’s beloved red bud trees, but also another round of anti-worker legislation winding its way through the third floor of the historic Capitol building sitting alongside the Missouri River in Jefferson City, where the state’s [...]

Kroenke adds Work Comp Insult to Rams’ Fans’ Injury

13 Mar 2016 Comments off

As first reported by Mike Florio of NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk, and later by FoxSports.com, The Orange County Register, and STLToday.com,The Rams are apparently trying to stay in St. Louis, at least in one way. Florio reports in this story that contracts being offered to new Rams players state that the laws of Missouri, not California, control their [...]

How Does Social Security’s “Offset” Work?

21 Jan 2016 Comments off

Anyone who is receiving social security disability benefits and has a workers' compensation claim pending needs expert legal advice in order make sure that they are as protected as possible. Social Security ("SS") allows its disability recipients to receive additional compensation from workers' compensation ("WC") cases in some, but not all situations. [...]

Work Comp Insurers Collect Their Premiums and Party On

29 Dec 2015 Comments off

‘All of This Because Somebody Got Hurt at Work’ Hummer limos, go-go dancers, a live alligator and glowing aliens in spandex at the national workers’ comp and disability expo. Journey into the little-known workers’ comp industrial complex. by Michael Grabell ProPublica, Dec. 29, 2015, 8 a.m. States nationwide are dismantling workers’ [...]

When Employers Don’t Insure

23 Sep 2015 Comments off

Workers compensation insurance protects both employers and employees. One workplace injury can change the future for the employee and the business. Need proof? See the impact an unsafe workplace and no workers compensation insurance had for one [...]

Your Next KorteLaw Tip Of The Day

15 Jun 2015 Comments off

According to the Fort Wayne, IN, Journal Gazette, Aaron Stefanski thought his kids would enjoy being strapped to the hood of his vehicle when he stopped at a liquor store south of downtown. “I was only going to drive around the corner. I thought they would like it,” he would later tell police. Stefanski strapped his two sons, ages 4 and 5, his [...]