The Best Cleaning Tool Can Be Found in Your Kitchen Lemons don’t just add a tart flavor to your favorite desserts or cool you down in a refreshing drink on a hot summer day. In addition to bold flavors, lemons also have powerful cleaning properties. Their acidity and oils cut through grease and can sanitize many of your household items. The best place to clean with a lemon is in the kitchen. For the microwave, ... Read More
It Is YOUR Responsibility To Notify Your Employer ASAP If You Have Been Hurt At Work
You must let them know the details of your accident and injury. Ideally, either the employer or you should put it in writing. It is enough to tell your supervisor that you were injured, but it is better if you make a written report. If the employer has an incident report for you to use, fill it out thoroughly. If your employer has an accident policy in place, then follow those guidelines as best you can. If they do ... Read More
What Does the Georgia Workers’ Compensation Act Not Cover?
Please be aware that the Workers’ Compensation Law, Rules and Regulations are subject to change on July 1st of each year. The purpose of the Workers’ Compensation Act is to compensate injured workers for their medical treatment, lost wages, and a permanency award to compensate the injured worker for the nature and extent of his or her injuries. It will NOT cover pain and suffering, as you would expect in a civil ... Read More
Important Legal Terms in Workers’ Compensation
The Workers’ Compensation Act can sound a bit like a foreign language. I want to help you understand some of the basic legal terms that are frequently used in connection with Workers’ Compensation Claims. What follows is a simplified listing of some of the commonly used terms, defined in plain English: Accepted Claim: This is a claim in which the Insurance company or the self-insured employer agrees that your injury ... Read More
What Does the Georgia Workers’ Compensation Act Cover?
The State of Georgia adopted the Georgia Workers’ Compensation Act to provide for workers who are injured on the job. It covers all reasonably necessary medical expenses, loss of income if the injury takes the worker out of work for more than seven days, and payment for permanent partial injuries. Although there are exceptions, Employers must carry insurance to cover their employees for on the job injuries, or they ... Read More
You Don’t Need a Crystal Ball To Know How the Rest of the Year Will Unfold
Ramiro Can Predict Your 2021! "Every year is going to be the same until you decide to change yourself" - Ramiro Rodríguez, Jr. I recently had a conversation with some good friends that included some speculation about how the rest of this year will unfold. We’ve got a new president, there’s progress on the vaccine front, and it feels like we could be on track for a totally different year. Or are we? I told ... Read More
Do You Need a License to Drive a Moped in Georgia?
Yes, You Need a License to Drive a Moped in Georgia The number of ways to get around seems to be forever multiplying. It’s important to be informed about the rules and regulations for your chosen form of transport, and regulations for some of the less common options, like mopeds, are not as well-known. What makes a moped a moped? Before you can determine what’s required of you as a driver, you first have ... Read More
Walk From Here to Alabama
On the Silver Comet Trail ITI: Touring Cobb County It’s true. You can walk from Cobb County right to the Alabama state line on the Silver Comet Trail," said Marietta injury lawyer Ramiro Rodriguez, Jr. This 61.5-mile paved trail was converted from the old Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which whisked passengers to and from New York on a gleaming luxury passenger train for which the trail was later named: the ... Read More
Make Friends Around the World
A Quick Guide to Forming Lasting Online Friendships We've entered a new age of creating online friendships, and many are embracing them now more than ever before. Those in our online circles can provide tremendous support, and online communities make it easier to find people we connect with and who have similar interests or identities. Of course, meeting people digitally poses many new questions: How do we ... Read More
Love Boosts Your Immune System and Lifespan
High Quality Relationships Lower Blood Pressure It doesn't take a scientist to tell us that a healthy, loving relationship can lessen our stress — but did you know it also boosts our immune system's response and could help us live longer? Multiple studies have shown that couples in happy, loving marriages tend to have lower blood pressure. Marriage itself isn’t the key to a healthier life — the love is, ... Read More