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I am a Class A driver and on april 17th of 2008 I was on my way back from my last stop on 95 north in MD about 7 miles north of baltimore. I was only doing about 55 miles an hour because of traffic conditions. I was in the middle lane when i came up on another semi who was only doing about 45mph. I flashed my lights try’n to signal that driver to yeild the lane (a good driver will always let the trucks behind him go by if they are going slower) after 15 minutes it became air apparent that this guy didn’t care and wasn’t going to move,infact he started going slower.I flipped my blinker on and started looking for a opening on the right side but because of the middle lane was being blocked all the 4wheelers(cars) were zipping by on my right side. I finally got the space i needed and started to come over when a guy in a honda decided he was gonna beat me to it and stepped on his gas pedal. Well i just went back in the middle and waited for him to pass but he just wouldn’t,so finally he backed off and i took my oppertunity but he was still so close that i had to keep a watchful eye in my spot mirror,i couldn’t see what was in the front left lane because of the semi obstructed my view,long story short when i finally got into the left lane within a split second i looked in front of me and there was somebody haulin a tanker and he was only going maybe 5mph,i made a last deperate attempt tp go for my out but it was to late, My neck was broken in 2 places,and my ribs were also broken and i had cause severe damage to one of the major artteries, I had to have a emergency fusion and something they called a bone graph but i was told they took a bone out of my lower back,I have a lawyer but he just won’t give me give me a number ,The rest of life is going to be altered because of this and my family just need some piece of mind, my lawyer also told me that i won’t get a lump sum and all i will get is a certian amount of weeks payed out over time,if anybody know anything that can help me not get cheated i would be very thankful.My job already fired me,they actually fired every driver without warning because they lost thier account,i got fired before i came back,thank you all for your time and i hope somebody can help me but any stories about people you know would be apreciated to ,just remember this is a workers comp case under new jersey laws and the insurance provider is new jersey manufactuers.

It doesn’t matter if the accident was your fault. Workman’s comp will still cover your injuries. It doesn’t pay you, though, it pays the medical care providers. The amount it pays directly covers lost wages, and since you were laid-off right after the accident, it won’t be much. Your attorney cannot speculate on the settlement. That would be unethical. He will, however, see to it that you’re not cheated.

In the meantime, file for unemployment, since you lost your job due to reduced work, not because of the accident. And look into temporary disability from Social Security.

Hope you’re feeling better. Good luck.

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An illegal immigrant who struck a Hanover woman with his vehicle then fled to Mexico will spend up to two years in prison after pleading guilty in York County court.

Alejandro Aleman, 35, whose last known address was in the 100 block of Lincoln Way East in New Oxford, was charged after police said he struck 69-year-old Esther V. Rodgers in his 1993 Ford Mustang on Feb. 25 in the 400 block of Baltimore Street in Hanover.

The crash left Rodgers with a broken right leg and skull fractures. She remained in a coma at York Hospital for several weeks. She moved from a rehabilitation facility to a nursing home on May 29.

Rodgers’ eldest son, Michael Rodgers, said then that his mother struggled with walking and memory, and she didn’t remember her family members.

Hanover Borough Police were unable to find Aleman after the crash and assumed he left the area.

Witnesses at the scene told police the Mustang Aleman was driving had two occupants when it struck Rodgers. The car pulled over and paused before driving off.

The Mustang was later found abandoned and stripped of its license plate at Littlestown Community Park.

An affidavit filed along with Aleman’s arrest warrant stated the vehicle and witness reports led police to identify Aleman and the passenger.

Aleman was found in early May in Texas as he crossed the border back into the United States.

On Thursday, Aleman pleaded guilty to accidents involving personal injury, failing to stop and render aid and operating a vehicle with insurance or a license. Aleman was sentenced to serve six to 23 months in York County Prison and received credit for time served because he was incarcerated on May 28. He is also responsible for paying $403 in related fines.

There is also an immigration detainer against Aleman, meaning U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services seek custody of him before his release.

Neither Rodgers nor her family members could be reached to comment on the proceedings.

What kind of ridiculous sentence is that? 2 years for maiming and seriously injuring a senior citizen, then fleeing the country?http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_10590433

This shows another side of illegal aliens. With over 30% of inmates in the US illegal aliens we don’t have the room to hold low life ass wipes like this!
Of course some pro-criminal people say we have American criminals so we should import all the criminals into the US! What the heck kind of logic is that?
If we didn’t have to house illegal alien criminals we could give American criminals longer sentences! Of course that goes against principle #1 of import more criminals! Those pro-criminal people want it both ways! Maybe that’s the plan! Commit so many crimes that they just don’t bother to lock up anyone!

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DEMS’ POSTER KIDS: BOGUS BEGGARS

By MICHELLE MALKIN

October 10, 2007 — A FEW weeks ago, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lured two young children to the spotlight to help him pass a huge expansion of government health insurance. Gemma and Graeme Frost, 9 and 12 years old, were severely injured in a car accident three years ago. Their parents obtained government health care through the non-means-tested Children’s Health Insurance Program in Maryland. President Bush’s veto doesn’t change that – and there’s the rub.

Because liberal lawmakers cannot honestly defend their expansion plans as bona fide aid to the needy, they’ve surrounded themselves with the Frosts and other kiddie human shields to deflect any tough scrutiny. As they push for an override of the president’s veto, scheduled for Oct. 18, the desperate Dems will shamelessly invoke the kiddie card to attack their critics for "attacking the children."

After 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democratic radio address, which was penned for him by Senate staffers, conservatives across the Internet asked the questions the mainstream media wouldn’t ask about the family’s financial situation. The couple claims an annual income of about $45,000. Neither the Democrats nor the Baltimore Sun indicates how they verified that assertion before circulating it.

What is verifiable: The Frosts own a home in Baltimore purchased for $55,000 16 years ago – and now worth an estimated $300,000. That’s a lot of equity. In addition, the children’s father, Halsey Frost, owns commercial real estate and his own small business, but chose not to buy health insurance for himself and his wife, whom he hired as an employee. She now apparently works freelance at a medical-publishing firm, which also reportedly doesn’t offer insurance.

Gemma and Graeme both attend costly private schools; the Frosts have two other school-age children. Reid’s staff says Gemma and Graeme get tuition breaks. But it’s not clear when those scholarships were instituted and/or whether the other two receive tuition aid. Moreover, Frost’s family comes from considerable means. The children’s maternal grandfather was an engineering executive. Their paternal grandparents hail from affluent Bronxville, N.Y., where the grandfather is a prominent consultant.

In other words: The public trough is not Halsey Frost’s last and only resort. The accident was horrible. The children deserve sympathy and compassion. But this family made choices. Choices have consequences. Taxpayers of lesser means should not be forced to subsidize them.

The Frosts claim it would cost them more per month than their mortgage, reportedly $1,200 a month, to buy private insurance. But insurance bloggers quickly found available plans for a family of six with premiums as low as $452/month.

Graeme and Gemma Frost are not the first political symbols to be exploited by socialized health-care pushers.

In 1996, Hillary Clinton trotted out young Jennifer Bush, a 7-year-old with mystery ailments whose mother coached her to lobby for universal health care. Jennifer’s mom was later convicted of aggravated child abuse and welfare fraud for misrepresenting $60,000 in assets on Medicaid forms.

In 2000, Al Gore propped up elderly widow Winifred Skinner to lambaste high drug prices. Gore repeated her claim that she had to pick up cans on roadsides to pay for medicine. Dan Rather bemoaned: "She’s no child, but she belongs on a poster about high drug costs." One problem: Winifred’s own well-to-do son, businessman Earl King, debunked those claims.

In 2004, John Kerry propped up Mary Ann Knowles, a breast-cancer patient whom he claimed "had to keep working day after day right through her chemo- therapy . . . because she was terrified of losing her family’s health insurance."

The Manchester Union Leader editorial page reported: "Knowles chose to work through most, but not all, of her chemo- therapy because her husband was out of a job. . . . She and husband John did not want to take the pay cut that would have come with disability leave, so Mary Ann kept working."

The Democrats sorely resent that they can no longer peddle their Big Nanny propaganda unchallenged. Reid is throwing tantrums and attacking the messengers who expose their health-care poster-child abuse. Here’s a free prescription for our stunted politicians: Grow up.

Most of the media is in bed with the Democratic party.

http://truewordtoday.blogspot.com/

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