Planning Bankruptcy? How To Handle Your Retirement Accounts

Posted on: 19 August 2021

Bankruptcy protection is an excellent legal tool to protect your finances and your future. But while you deal with debt issues from your past, it's important not to sacrifice your future and how you're saving for your own retirement. What important things should you do or avoid doing with retirement accounts while seeking bankruptcy relief? Here's what you need to know. 1. Keep Contributing Many people struggling with debt try to find extra money in their monthly budget any way they can.
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When The Workers' Compensation Insurer Won't Cooperate

Posted on: 14 July 2021

Hurt workers may be entitled to many benefits if their claim is approved. Unfortunately, workers who depend on those benefits can find that things don't go as smoothly as they might have hoped. Some workers end up fighting the workers' comp insurer, and that does not help an injury or illness get better. To find out more, read below. Benefits You Hope to Receive Workers' compensation is insurance paid for by your employer.
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Does Fertility Fraud Count As Medical Malpractice?

Posted on: 10 June 2021

The rise of 23andMe and other genealogy businesses has uncovered a type of fertility fraud involving doctors using their own sperm—instead of donor sperm—to impregnate patients. Although this is unethical on many levels, it may be difficult to win a medical malpractice lawsuit in this type of case, and here are the reasons why. Actions May Not Satisfy Negligence and Injury Requirements A medical malpractice lawsuit requires plaintiffs to show the doctor's actions were negligent, meaning the doctor deviated from the standard of care expected in their line of work and that that deviation resulted in injury to the patient.
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Getting Ready to Take Your Bankruptcy Education Class: What to Know

Posted on: 1 April 2021

To successfully file for bankruptcy, there are several requirements that filers had to meet. Educational classes are one of those requirements, and you cannot get your debt discharged if you don't take the classes. One of those classes has to be done before you file and the other has to be completed before your case is final. Read on to find out more about the debtor education class. Part of the Process
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