A Guide to Your Rights

• An Overview and Introduction
• Health Insurance
• Patient Safety
• Private Benefits:
  Motor Vehicle Insurance
• Private Benefits: Disability Insurance
• Private Benefits: Workers Compensation
• Public Benefits:
  Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
• Public Benefits:
  Crime Victims Compensation Fund
• Public Benefits:
  Federal Government
• Public Benefits: Attendant Care
• Disabled Children
• Rehabilitation Hospitals
  & Facilities
• Vocational Rehabilitation Services
• Civil Litigation: Claims For Damages
• Resources
• Support Groups
• Entitlements And Benefits
• Acknowledgements

 

As trial lawyers, our focus is always on the courtroom, and on the work necessary to prepare cases for the courtroom.

As part of that work, we have had the opportunity to witness firsthand the efforts of clients and families struggling to piece lives back together after sometimes enormous setbacks. Sometimes, tort litigation -- that is, a lawsuit against a company or a person that caused an injury as a result of carelessness or other misconduct -- can effectively secure the resources necessary to provide the highest quality of life. But litigation proceeds are not the only potential source of resources for accident victims. Many different private and public benefits and resources are potentially available.

 

RESOURCES

Amputee Resource Foundation of America, Inc. (ARFA)

6480 Wayzata Boulevard

Golden Valley, MN 55426 (612) 812-7875

http://www.amputeeresource.org/

 

Brain Injury Association, Inc.

105 N. Alfred Street

Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 236-6000 (800) 444-6443

http://www.biausa.org/

 

Brain Injury Association of Delaware

P. O. Box 95

Middletown, DE 19709

(302) 537-5770

(800) 411-0505

http://www.biausa.org/

 

Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc.

1090 King George Post Road, Suite 708

Edison, NJ 08837

(732) 738-1002

(800) 669-4323

http://www.bianj.org/

 

Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania

2400 Park Drive

Harrisburg, PA 17110

(717) 657-3601

(866) 635-7097 (In state)

http://www.biapa.org/

 

Brain Injury Resource Center

212 Pioneer Building

Seattle, WA 98104-2221

(206) 621-8558

http://www.headinjury.com/

 

Legal Clinic for the Disabled, Inc.

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

1513 Race Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

(215) 587-3350

http://www.legalclinicforthedisabled.org

 

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

6 Franklin Plaza

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Admissions Office: (215) 587-3117

http://www.mageerehab.org/

 

MossRehab Resource Net (MRRN)

Moss Rehab Hospital

1200 W. Tabor Road

Philadelphia, PA 19141

(215) 456-9900

http://www.mossresourcenet.org/

 

National Association of Home Care & Hospice

228 Seventh Street, S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20003(202) 547-7424

http://www.nahc.org/

 

National Family Caregiver Association

10400 Connecticut Avenue, #500

Kensington, MD 20895-3944

(800) 896-3650

http://www.nfcacares.org/

 

National Industries for the Severely Handicapped (NISH)

East Regional Office

P. O. Box 686

2236-C Gallows Road

Dunn Loring, VA 22027

(517) 226-4600

http://www.nish.org/

 

National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS)

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD 20892

www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/tbi_doc.htm

 

National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA)

6701 Democracy Boulevard, Suite 300-9

Bethesda, MD 20817

(301) 588-6959

(301) 962-9629

http://www.spinalcord.org/

 

Philadelphia Corporation for Aging

642 N. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

(215) 765-9000

http://www.pcaphl.org

 

United States Department of Justice

American With Disabilities Act Information Line

1-800-514-0301

1-800-514-0383 (TDD)

www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/infoline.htm