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DLG Employees spread holiday cheer at nursing home
For the second year, the Deuterman Law Group helped spread holiday cheer at Britthaven of Guilford, an assisted living and rehabilitation facility in Greensboro. Employees delivered holiday gift bags to the home’s 120 elderly and disabled residents, many who do not have family with which to share the holidays. Paralegal Erin Quintrell and her family volunteer at the nursing home weekly with their congregation at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 3228 Hines Chapel Road, Greensboro. Quintrell’s husband, who is a Sunday school teacher and la ...
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It can be easy when you handle a considerable amount of cases, to feel like you know what is best for the client. Ultimately, however, it is their case and their life. Consequently, you should always get their input. In the course of our practice it is not uncommon for a client, who is currently represented by another firm, to contact our office about their case. Unfortunately, the common complaint I hear is, "I have only met my attorney once, and all they said to me is what I should accept for settlement." That is sad. Client contact, and ke ...
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As a firm whose primary focus is on Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability, the Deuterman Law Group represents employees in matters involving workplace accidents and on-the-job injuries. Dan Deuterman is a Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation law and has been awarded an AV Rating in legal ability and ethical standards, the highest rating available for attorneys. Workers' Compensation Social Security Disability Third Party Actions/Workplace Torts Personal Injury http://www.deutermanlaw.com/practice/ ...
Read More | No CommentsKids’ Chance in the News
In case you missed it during the holiday festivities, here's a link to a letter to the editor from Dan Deuterman that was published July 4 in the News & Record in Greensboro. Scroll down to the letters from July 4 to read what Dan had to say. Dan wrote about Kids' Chance and Lorraine Ahearn's recent column on the scholarship program. ...
Read More | No CommentsKids’ Chance Success Stories
Kids' Chance first came to be in 1988 because of the initiative taken by the Workers' Compensation section of the Georgia Bar. Jeff Kight one of the earliest recipients, who is now an attorney, talks to radio host Attorney Alan Pierce on Workers Comp Matters about how Kids' Chance helped him attend college. ...
Read More | No CommentsKids’ Chance Scholarships Available to Children of Injured Workers
Like us, you know how deeply family members can be affected by a workplace injuries, both financially and emotionally. The impact of such injuries is long lasting. A family's struggles and challenges don't disappear once we obtain a verdict or a settlement or payment of their medical expenses. They persist. But at least there's help out there from groups like Kids' Chance of North Carolina, a scholarship program meant to help the children who become unwitting casualties of workplace injuries. Kids' Chance of North Carolina scholarships are avai ...
Read More | No CommentsDeuterman Law Group promotes scholarship program for children of workers killed or injured on the job
Kineshia Irby's life changed forever in 1992 when she was just 7 years old. Her father, a counselor for the Mecklenburg County Health Department, was returning from a workshop when he was critically injured in a car accident. He has never recovered from the injuries and remains in a semi-vegetative state 14 years later. Kineshia's mother, Christine Irby was suddenly thrust into the role of a single parent. From that day forward, she alone became responsible for raising her only daughter, providing for her and making sure her dreams were realize ...
Read More | No CommentsGreat article about Kids’ Chance scholarships program for children of injured workers
Check out Lorraine Ahearn's column from Sunday's News & Record about Kids' Chance of North Carolina. The organization, which Deuterman Law Group supports financially and in other ways, provides scholarships to high school and college students who had a parent killed or catastrophically injured on the job. Next month, we'll begin selling cookbooks to benefit Kids' Chance at our offices. They're just $10. And if you know of a student who might be eligible for a scholarship, we have applications. Just visit our Web site or email our PR person at a ...
Read More | No CommentsGreensboro couple establishes scholarship for UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law students
(Greensboro, N.C., March. 23, 2006) - Daniel and Dawne Deuterman of the Deuterman Law Group in Greensboro have endowed a scholarship to benefit students attending the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law. The Daniel Lyndon and Dawne Talbert Deuterman Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student ranked in the top third of his or her college class, who demonstrates financial need and leadership abilities through college involvement and extracurricular activities. Preference will be given to students from Guilford County. The first scholarship wil ...
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NCATL drops official bank over workers’ compensation reform
The N. C. Academy of Trial Lawyers has ended its longtime relationship with its offical bank over the issue of workers' compensation reform. The Academy, whose membership includes more than 4,000 attorneys dedicated to protecting individual rights in North Carolina, instead has chosen SunTrust as its official bank. Insurance lobbying groups and big companies, including Duke Energy, Progress Energy and Bank of America, are the major backers of an effort to change the state's Workers' Compensation Act in ways that would severely compromise worker ...
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