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News and Press
According to an investigation by American-Statesman, of all the Texas veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and were receiving disability benefits when they died, a majority accidentally died from drug overdoses or toxic prescription combinations. Information released by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicated that almost 350 veterans from Texas with VA benefits […]
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Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate Neil Thrasher was sentenced to 17 months to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of embezzlement from a charitable organization and one count of violation of the charitable solicitation act. According to authorities, Thrasher created two fake charities – Paralyzed American Veterans and Disabled Veterans of American […]
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Employment, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, Veterans Law
Jim Fausone Veteran Advocate According to a recent Ninth Circuit opinion, it is not a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to fire an employee who repeatedly fails to show up for work. It’s amazing that such a question would even have to be decided by a Federal Court of Appeals. In Samper […]
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Veterans Law
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation to honor veterans. The new law will allow New York state’s Department of Motor Vehicles to add a mark indicating “veteran” status on both driver’s licenses and or non-driver IDs. This legislation allows veterans of the United States Armed Forces to request the veteran status mark on […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability, News and Press, PTSD
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer In order to receive VA disability compensation, you have to prove a service connected disability. The disability has to occur on active duty as compared to monthly training in which National Guard and Reserve have traditionally participated. But since 9/11 the Guard and Reserve components have made up about 40% of the […]
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Claims Processing, Medical Issues / Disability
Jim Fausone Veteran Disability Lawyer After handing thousands of veteran claims for disability over a dozen years some patterns emerge. One of the more frustrating is the loss of military records that veterans need to prove disability claims to the VA. A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Seattle Times has found that the recordkeeping […]
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News and Press
TechShop, Inc. is a Silicon Valley firm that runs an expanding chain of membership-based shops, featuring a wide array of equipment and computer workstations for designing, prototyping and manufacturing a wide array of items. TechShop is a place designed for inventors, innovators and ‘makers’, working alone and with others. A typical TechShop ‘shop’ is 20,000 […]
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News and Press
Tariq Hafeez, Esq. A five year sentence and $3 million in restitution awaits Jonathan Agbebiyi, the Michigan gynecologist behind a $5.4 million Medicare fraud scheme. Between 2007 and 2010, Agbebiyi practiced at three different clinics in Livonia, running a Medicare fraud scheme from each. However, it is not just Agbebiyi’s fraudulent use of the […]
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Mental Health, PTSD
James G. Fausone Veterans Disability Attorney A report, posted to the VA‘s website, showed that 247,243 of the 834,463 treated veterans from the two current conflicts were diagnosed with PTSD. So the question is does VA intend to have the resources necessary both in health care and in disability benefits to meet this reality. Based […]
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News and Press
Jim Fausone Veterans Disability Lawyer The men who guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are staying in place during Hurricane Sandy. We expect so much of our men and women in the military. I pass along this news story because it gives me goose bumps. I hope it does for you as well. https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/guards-tomb-unknowns-remain-during-hurricane-165122482–election.html
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