Effective January 1, 2013, the rate for reimbursement for workers compensation travel to medical appointments has been increased to 0.565 per mile. When you request reimbursement for travel from the insurance company, you need to accumulate $100 worth of reimbursements and you need to prepare a log showing the date of travel, the places traveled from and and to and the distance.
Anchorage Judge Throws Out 1-Year Plea Deal in Fatal Hit-And-Run
KTUU News: Fatal Hit and Run Plea Deal Denied
Surveillance
If you were injured at work, and you think someone is following you around, you're not paranoid. Insurance companies routinely hire private investigators to follow injured workers around, videotape and photographing them. In the cases I've handled, I've discovered photos and video of my clients going to doctors visits, going to the grocery store, pumping gas, hardly suspicious activity. So talk to your friends and neighbors and if you see someone sitting in a car in your neighborhood, go up to them, introduce yourself, ask their names and call a lawyer. The insurance company is preparing to controvert your claim.
Fairbanks Woman Ordered to Pay $420K in Boy’s Death
What's the point of $420K judgment? The point is that when the woman is released from jail and tries to get a drivers license, she won't be able to get one until she pays it off. She won't pay it off. She won't get a drivers license. And as soon as the police catch her driving, they can stop her and she'll end up going back to jail before she hurts someone else.
KTUU News: Woman Ordered to Pay $420k in Boy's Death
High Speed Chases Risk Serious Injuries
High speed chases risk serious injuries to innocent bystanders. APD has a problem on its hands if its policy allows a high speed chase merely to apprehend a thief. I doubt that the policy permitted this chase and that is why APD is refusing to release it.
KTUU News Story:Three Critically Injured After Collision with Pursued Stolen Car