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

 

Acknowledgements

We are deeply indebted to the Legal Clinic for the Disabled, http://www.legalclinicforthedisabled.org/, and its Executive Director, Thomas Prettyman, Esquire, for lending some of their enormous expertise to this guide. The Legal Clinic for the Disabled is a not-for-profit corporation that specializes in providing free legal services to low-income people with physical disabilities in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties.

Additional contact information for the Legal Clinic for the Disabled is set forth above. We are also indebted, in equal measure, to Meyer Silver, Esquire, of the law firm Silver & Silver, and his colleagues at that firm, for lending their knowledge of Social Security disability law. Silver & Silver is a law firm that is widely, and justly, recognized for its expertise in this important and highly specialized area. Mr. Silvers can be contacted at (610) 658-1900.)