PRACTICE AREAS

• Delay in care
• Pain medication overdose

Car wash & Truck wash equipment disputes

• Equipment and/or chemicals don't work as promised

• Breach of Lease
• Breach of contract for sale

Past clients include: Owners, GCs, subcontractors and injured workers.

Issues include whether the companies involved have workers comp

• Jon will coordinate with the Workers Comp Insurance company to see that clients get the correct health care and as well as the benefits they are owed. ANd when the case is resolved, Jon will go back to the workers comp carrier to try to negotiate a lower pay back rate.
• Jon will also make sure that lost pay is calculated correctly.

• Important to find out if the worker who caused the problem worked for another employer because there may be separate liability and claims for multiple employers.

• Safety is more than a poster. A GC may not be managing safety correctly at his worksite. Also important to determine whether the owner was aware of a defect on his premises.

• Problems with the scaffold caused by contractors allowing workers to remove cross braces, not using proper equipment to attach the scaffold to the building, missing ladders, no toeboards, items improperly stored on the scaffold

• Falls from roofs and beams due to improper protections (such as missing harnesses)
• Falls from construction elevators that weren't properly attached

• Amputations caused by objects falling off of forklifts during transportation and loading
• Areas not roped off
• No safety boots
• Improper supervision during use

• Was area fenced off properly
• Do all workers and visitors have hard hats?
• Are adequate warnings posted?

• Due to improper bracing, soils testing

Explosions

• If the field was high in Hydrogen Sulfide, were proper warnings posted?
• Was a kill truck on site?
• Was a yardman properly supervising the work?

• Jon will review autopsy and drug test results. This is particularly important because the method of testing can skew the results.
• Jon works with experts on oil field servicing and well management

• If the field was high in Hydrogen Sulfide, were proper warnings posted?
• Was the well properly monitored?
• Were workers provided with H.S. monitors to wear?
• Did the employer respond to exposure correctly - provide oxygen, transport the injured worker to the hospital fast enough?

VA patients who are retired service people & their families. Active military members cannot make a claim.

VA cases are different from Med Mal cases. You need a lawyer who understands the process.

• There is no trial by jury. Cases get tried in Fed court in front of a judge. So you need an attorney who understands how to prepare cases for bench trials.
• Jon will help with filing the SF95 claim forms within the 2 year deadline
• Jon will work his clients through the lengthy, convoluted VA claims process
• Jon's finance background helps him work with clients to set up trusts for future care

• Delayed Care
• Death resulting from prescription drug overdose

Partnership disputes