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The QRLegal Blog
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Latest Blog Posts:
Social Security Administration Adds 38 New Diagnoses to Compassionate Allowance List
The Social Security Administration maintains a Compassionate Allowance List (CAL) as a way to quickly identify medical conditions that will likely qualify for disability benefits, lessening the wait time for a decision.
When Social Security receives a claim that alleges a condition listed on the Compassionate Allowance list, the case is marked as expedited. While a favorable decision is not guaranteed based on the condition being listed on the CAL, it may decrease the wait time a claimant typically faces. If Social Security is not able to make a favorable decision after examining the case under the CAL guidelines, it will then be processed as a non-expedited claim.
As of March 1, 2010, Social Security has expanded the initial CAL to include 38 new medical conditions. The 38 new Compassionate Allowance conditions are:
1. Alstrom Syndrome
2. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
3. Ataxia Spinocerebellar
4. Ataxia Telangiectasia
5. Batten Disease
6. Bilateral Retinoblastoma
7. Cri du Chat Syndrome
8. Degos Disease
9. Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease
10. Edwards Syndrome
11. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
12. Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
13. Glutaric Acidemia Type II
14. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
15. Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
16. Hunter Syndrome, Type II
17. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
18. Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
19. Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
20. Leigh's Disease
21. Maple Syrup Urine Disease
22. Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
23. Mixed Dementia
24. Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
25. Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
26. Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, Infantile Type
27. Niemann-Pick Type C
28. Patau Syndrome
29. Primary Progressive Aphasia
30. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
31. Sanfilippo Syndrome
32. Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
33. Tay Sachs Disease
34. Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
35. Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
36. Walker Warburg Syndrome
37. Wolman Disease
38. Zellweger Syndrome
Vince Quatrini, Jr., Begins Work On New Edition of Pennsylvania "Workers' Compensation: Practice and Procedure"
Quatrini Rafferty partner Vincent J. Quatrini, Jr., recently traveled to Harrisburg, PA to begin work on the 2010 edition of the Pennsylvania Bar Insitute's publication "Workers' Compensation: Practice and Procedure." The workers' compensation manual, widely referred to as the "Bible" in workers comp circles, is touted by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute as "a complete survey of the substantive law of workers' compensation practice, the Workers' Compensation Act, and the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act." PBI also notes that "this book can be found in the chambers of the Commonwealth Court and on the desks of the commissioners of the Appeal Board, workers' compensation judges, lawyers, and claims personnel throughout Pennsylvania."
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry Announces Grant To Retrain Veterans
The Department of Labor and Industry recently announced a grant in the amount of $311,000 to help retrain veterans for welding jobs. The grant, which will be used by the Steamfitters Local, will fund the Returning Veterans Welding Program, which is scheduled to start in the fall. The veterans will receive 96 hours of beginner welding training during an eight-week period.
Bill Introduced to End Two Year Waiting Period for Medicare
As most of our clients are aware, disabled individuals must often wait two years for medical coverage through Medicare despite being unable to work. Well, good news might be on the way!
(See posts for more details)
Social Security And Long Term Disability Newsletter Articles
- Help For Medicare Recipients
- One-Time Stimulus Payments For Ss Benefit Recipients
- Hurdles in the Social Security Disability Path
- FAQs: Social Security Retirement
- Your Annual Social Security Statement
- Can I Work and Still Receive SSD OR SSI?
- Social Security Disability - Did You Know?
- Social Security News
- The Long Wait For A Social Security Hearing
- Your Disability Benefit: It Is What It Is
- Before We Talk About Your Disability...
- All Disability Policies Are Not Created Equal
- My Doctor Says I'm Disabled. Why Isn't that Enough?
- A Summary: Long-Term and Short-Term Disability
- SSI and SSD - What's the Difference?
- What's the Connection between Social Security Disability and Private Disability Insurance?
- Why your Neighbor's Sister's Son is Getting 'Disability' and You're Not
Workers Compensation Newsletter Articles
- WC Benefits And Retirement Benefits Don't Mix
- Laid Off? You may be entitled to WC benefits
- Workers' Compensation Alert
- How Workers' Compensation Benefits Are Calculated
- Hearing Loss May Be a Work Injury
- I Can't Return To My Job... What Now?
- Layoffs After a Work Injury
- Important Changes to the Workers' Compensation Law
Pennsylvania Auto Insurance Newsletter Articles
- Auto Insurance: Are You at risk in these economic times?
- Limited Tort Myths
- What's a Peer Review
- Protect Yourself From the Uninsured Driver
- Why is my Auto Insurance Paying my Medical Bills?
- Flexible Insurance Coverage
- Pennsylvania Driver Alert
- Beware - All Registered Vehicles Must Be Insured
- Required Auto Coverage
- Limited Tort - a Bad Deal
Personal Injury Newsletter Articles
- Personal Injury Cases: Picking Up The Pieces
- Slip and Fall Cases
- Limited Tort - Never A Good Choice!!
- When Pain Doesn't End...
Pennsylvania Estate Planning Newsletter Articles
- Form Wills - A Bad Bargain
- Thinking OF Retirement? Don't Make These Mistakes
- Probate - Is it Really an Expensive Burden?>
- Advanced Health Care Directives
- Should I Transfer my Family Home to my Child?
- Do I Need a Living Trust?
- Making Medical Choices - Lessons from the Schiavo Case
- Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax
- Planning for Peace of Mind
- Dying Without a Will
Real Estate Newsletter Articles
Criminal Defense Newsletter Articles
- Expungement Law Expanded In Pennsylvania
- New DUI Law is in Effect
- Search Warrants Under the Patriot Act
Prescription Drug Newsletter Articles
Other Newsletter Articles
- Better Safe Than "Social"!
- Making Sense Of Your Auto Policy
- Why Does My Neighbor Get Disability And I Can't?
- Reopening Of Gulf War Claims
- Aid & Attendance Benefit For Veterans
- Tax Talk With Jim
- Collaborative Law: The "No Court" Alternative
- Right To Know Law
- Tax Talk With Jim - The 'Making Work Pay' Credit
- New help for homeowners
- BREAKING NEWS: HIGHLIGHTS OF ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) - Cobra
- Tax talk with Jim
- Tax Talk With Jim - Winter '08
- Back To The Future
- I Saw That Advertised On TV
- I'm Here... But Where's My Stuff?!
- Medicare Parts A & B: The Basics
- Medicaid Eligibility For Nursing Home Care
- So You Want to Start a Small Business
- Identity Theft
- Do You Need Mine Subsidence Insurance?
- Computers and Your Kids
- Tax Talk with Jim - The New Energy Tax Credit
- Safekeeping Documents
- LIFETIME LEGAL CARE: A Way Of Life At Quatrini Rafferty
- Tax Talk with Jim
- Past Due Child Support can Impact Settlements
- CHIP Program Expanded
- Reality Tour Press
