Maximum Medical Improvement and the Independent Medical Examinations If you, or someone you love, have been injured on the job, you know that injured workers in South Carolina are entitled to workers' compensation benefits, including medical treatment. Maximum Medical Improvement You may also recognize that an injured worker will likely to reach a point at which the treating physician opines that additional treatment will not improve the employee’s condition. This is known as maximum medical improvement or (MMI). Even if an injured worker has reached MMI, he or she may still require medical treatment. Maximum medical improvement is a plateau an injured worker hits once additional treatment w
In the past decade, smartphones have changed the ways we engage with the world. Smartphones are also a significant cause of distracted driving, which is now a leading cause of motor vehicle accidents. The NHTSA found that 391,000 people were injured in distracted driving crashes in 2015, and another study found that phone use was the cause of 18 percent of distraction-related fatalities in America based on the research conducted by a motor vehicle attorney. For many Grand Strand car accident victims, your attorney will need to prove that driver distraction or inattentiveness caused your accident. Here are three ways we can prove distracted driving caused your accident and injuries: Make the
