I live in California and injured my back at work about a year ago. I’ve been recovering and doing "light duty". How long does my employer have to legally keep my job saved for when I am able to return? I’m worried I might be jobless by the time I recover.

Should we consult an attorney about a car accident my husband was recently involved in to make sure we get the max amount we deserve? I’ll try and give you as much details about the accident as possible.

What happened: My husband was driving home from work when 2 cars came to a stop in front of him, he stopped about 1 1/2 car lengths behind them as they were waiting to turn left, about 3 seconds later a large SUV rear-ended him dead on pushing him into the van in front of him and totaling our car. He went to the ER right away but haven’t gotten the x-rays back yet. We won’t get the police report for a few more days still but it was DEFINITELY the woman’s fault. My husband is under DR’s orders to take off 1 week, and then light duty for 1 week (possibly longer after we find out the results of the x-rays), he is feeling anxious because of missing work and we have no savings so we’re stressed about bills, we have a 5 month old and he cannot help me at home, and is afraid to drive now.
Oh yes and my husband drives for a living so him being afraid of getting into another accident is taking a toll on his work performance capacity.

Mainly we want the woman (or her insurance company) to pay: the remainder of our loan, my husband’s present and future medical bills regarding these injuries, lost wages, loss of ability to provide household serivces, loss of use of property (ie the car), pain and suffering (for his physical pain, mental suffering, and emotional distress), a rental car that is comparable to our totaled car until this is settled.

Also we know that the woman has insurance and it is up to date as we have already contacted her insurance as well as ours about this accident.

So do I have a case, should we get a lawyer?
our insurance co offered us about 14k for the car, but we owe about 16k on our loan as we’ve not had this car not even 2 months. When we purchased the car we didn’t get GAP so there is around 2k that will be left on the loan if we accept this.
he was at a dead stop and the woman was going 55mph when she hit him, that is why he was pushed so far. The police officer walked the skid marks from our car and he was pushed 10 feet (I guess that’s about 1 1/2 cars length right?)
this is what the car looks like now,

http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd204/astolateinfanite/car%20accident/

and yes I am telling 100% of the truth, I feel bad for the women who hit him as she seemed very upset but we are newly married with a young baby and had worked hard for our car and life only to have it jeopardized by this womans negligence!

okay i got hurt at work , and workmens comp didnt want to pay but im on light duty, now i have a attorney ,i am wondering now since i have to have surgery what will i get out of all this crap.. and how does it work and how much do u think

My wife and I were in an auto accident in Feb 08. It was in our 1993 Chevy truck. The other driver ran a red light and hit the driver side. As a result my head broke out the driver side window. I did not go to the ER in the ambulance we drove after the report was filed with the police. I went for neck and low back pain and wife sustained buises to her right arm and right knee. They did a Catscan that ruled I had severe whiplash and for the back pain they told me to folow up with a chiro. I recieved 2 month of treatment from them for my back. I actually stopped going because the visits started hurting. After not going for a week or so. It still hurt a getting out of bed and every now and then it would remind me. I am a police officer and light duty is not an option. Anything can happen at anytime. About a month ago I woke on a day off and I couldn’t walk without have back pain and shooting pain around my ribs, breathing hurt.I thought it was the way I slept. cont.
The pain persisted all day. I decided to sleep on another bed. All night and the next morning PAIN,PAIN,PAIN. So I went to the ER I couldn’t even made it from the car to the door. After 7 hours of getting my pain under control.|The ER doctor advised that I have a herniated disc and gave me a week off work. So in bed on my back for four days pain lets up enough to return to work. I followed up with my doctor who gave me more pain medication and sent me for x-rays. Now at work I have to get out of my patrol car periodically because my legs go numb. |I have stopped wearing my bulletproof vest because it helps a little. BAD IDEA I know but what do I do Find a new career. Still have to go back to see what x-rays showed but I am wondering what to do about the injury settlement. We already settled the vehicle part. The damages were 00 to the vehicle totalling it. Considering the truck was worth 00.
All help from claim personal would be great!!!!!!!!!
MORE INFO medical bill so far are @ 00

In Sept. 08 I injured my back at work. I work for an airline and the way we load bags and shove and pull them in and out of tiny spaces on our very small planes put a disc on the nerve and i was very hurt from it. I went to the ER and they put me on light duty. However Light duty was impossible because of the fact we work one person per flight. No one to help me. I told that to my boss and she said just have the pilots help you load and un load the plane. Well that is all fine if they help but some simply would not. I ended up injury myself further. Same injury just got worse. So I went back to the doctor and he said I could not handle a bag period not at the counter the plane nothing so there for there was no work for me and I was taken out of work due to the weight restrictions. Then it took a long time 4 months to be exact during christmas to even recieve a check the medical appointments were slowly being approved and the MRI took forever which my doctor would not release me anyways until those results. 4 months later I was released to work and the day after I got to go back to work i finally recived a card allowing me to fill perscriptions and show at appointments very very slow. So I was released in January and now May I got re injured. Now I am going thru it all again. I have a feeling this is never going to go away now. I have NEVER had back problems. Now I am limited with my everyday activities and my work has such a bad attitude calling me and telling me how nice they were to accept my workmans comp and they did not have to etc. Which is bull. So this time I thought im not waiting I paid out of my own pocket for a doctors appt so I was not waiting around getting worse so I could start physical therapy etc. I can not afford to pay all that though I just payed for my initial dr. visit. Im in fear I am either going to lose my job or be on a waiting game again. I need to work or I need something I am a single mom with 3 small children and having a zero income is not going to be good. any ideas how to speed this up? a lawyer perhaps but i am not sure what their role would even be.