Law Center
Ireland: Handicapped parking crackdown
The Irish government is finally working on increasing the penalties for parking in a handicapped parking spot. Presently drivers only have to pay 80 Euros for parking in a handicapped spot, assuming that most police don’t write parking tickets for this because of the low penalty and no points against the driver. If the changes [...]
Hobby Lobby loses ADA lawsuit
Hob-Lob Inc, better known as Hobby Lobby a gift and craft store chain has lost a major ADA lawsuit. The case started when a worker was injured and could no longer use a ladder in their job. Rather than finding a job that the worker could do within the company, Hobby Lobby decided to let [...]
Gov’t plans to get rid of disabled in “emergencies”
State governments are making plans on how to deal with disabled people during emergency situations. New York State has devised a set of triage standards that are to be followed by doctors during times of emergency. Originally public views were to be put into these standards, but that quickly fell by the way side as [...]
Gov’t report shows disabled ignored by states and businesses
The National, Council on Disability has written a report on the state of disability access to medical care in the United States. It is a sobering report showing the while some agencies are working hard to help the disabled and to remove barriers, both physical as well as administrative, others ignore virtually all federal laws. [...]
State program targeting disabled/elderly
As if we didn’t have enough to contend with – there is a scam running around going after the disabled that we all need to watch out for. The scam is tied to government programs allegedly trying to get money back used to pay for nursing care of the disabled and elderly. To get that [...]
HIPAA costing lives in longrun
All of us are worried about our personal data getting out to the Internet so that identity thieves can steal our bank accounts. Plus, health insurance companies have used personal data to drop patients or deny services based on items found in old health forms. To make sure that these types of things cannot occur [...]
Medicare overpays again
A US Inspector General has reported that Medicare overpays almost $1000 on every wheelchair that they rent rather than purchase. The idea behind the Medicare program is that the disabled will have someone to go back to if there is a problem with their chair and that the repairs will be included with their monthly [...]
Cambridge City Council Ignores ADA and Service Dog rights
A woman who lives in Cambridge, Mass. a disabled woman wanted to sit in on the city council meetings but was refused because she has a service dog. The dog was in the chamber several times before without issue, but suddenly one of the council members has become allergic to animals. Even with the dog [...]
ACTION NEEDED: FDA may remove pain killers
Action is need by the chronic pain community to tell the FDA not to remove medications like Percocet or Vicodin from the list of medications available. In addition, extra strength medications like Tylenol would be removed from over the counter and would require a prescription by a doctor. Tens of thousands of pain suffers depend [...]
Disabled heckled at meeting
At a town hall meeting in New Jersey a disabled woman who spends half her day in a wheelchair was heckled. She started to explain that she has Rheumatoid Arthritis and Sjogren’s Syndrome, both which destroy healthy nerves. Then she explained what she thought should be in the health care bill for the disabled when [...]
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