What you need to know about Advance Health Care Directives An Advance Health Care Directive is a document you sign giving instructions to someone you trust to make healthcare decisions for you if you’re unable to do so. These types of documents are sometimes called a “Living Will” or “Health Care [...]
Published: 12/07/2018 By: RKM Many people come to us with a belief that the quantity of time spent with their children determines whether they, as parents, should share residency of their children or whether one parent should have primary residence of the children. Even worse, many clients have a mistaken [...]
HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY ROBINSON, KRIGER & McCALLUM Published: 12/05/2018 By: RKM HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY ROBINSON, KRIGER & McCALLUMI was reminded recently that it has been 40 years since Bob Robinson and Jim Kriger founded what was then Robinson & Kriger. Since then our firm has grown from 4 lawyers to upward of 16 attorneys. The [...]
Statutory and Litigation Penalties for Failure to Secure the Payment of Workers’ Comp Benefits in MainePublished: 04/26/2018 By: RKM It is essential that every Maine employer consider its obligation to obtain workers’ compensation insurance. The Maine Worker’s Compensation Act requires that, with some exceptions, employers secure the payment of compensation in conformity with sections [...]
Employees vs. Independent Contractors Published: 11/06/2018 By: RKM Workers’ compensation benefits are only payable to an “employee” as defined by the Maine Workers’ Compensation Act. Accordingly, when involved in a workers’ compensation claim, it is important to know whether you are, or an injured worker is, classified as an employee or an independent contractor to [...]
5 things you should know after you’ve been involved in a car accident that is not your faultPublished: 03/302018 By: RKM You could be involved in an accident at any time. You might be on your way to work, heading to the airport for a long-anticipated vacation, or driving home after picking your child [...]
What is a QDRO?Published: 08/23/2017 By: RKM A Qualified Domestic Relations order (QDRO, sometimes pronounced “qua-dro” for short) is an order in a divorce case that tells a plan administrator how to allocate all or a portion of a person’s retirement benefits to the other party. It’s basically a way to split up a pension [...]
Rachel J. Deschuytner has joined RKM as an Associate AttorneyPublished: 05/23/2017 By: RKM Rachel J. Deschuytner has joined Robinson Kriger and McCallum as an Associate Attorney in the Workers Compensation Insurance Defense area. Ms. Deschuytner is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine and the Maine School of Law and resides in Portland. RACHEL [...]
What is a Collaborative Divorce?Published: 06/08/2017 By: RKM Clients are often confused about the term collaborative divorce – their spouse may have said it to them, or a friend mentioned it, or they may have read about it somewhere – and they wonder what does it mean?A collaborative divorce is simply one where the [...]