Archive for February, 2010

As a boss, manager or CEO, you have the task of ensuring that the employees give their best.  This cannot be achieved through giving orders. You need to ensure that they are motivated in terms of payment and also work stations. The offices where they work have to be friendly. This should not bring wild imaginations to you. You would just need to ensure their comfort at working positions and you would have their best.

What would interest you most is how office chairs could play a great role on this. You would realize that you can be able to make the most out of your employees when you let them feel comfortable. When they have the right sitting place, they would find it comfortable working, they would work longer.

This would be very different than when they do not have the right chairs. Naturally, they would strain and so they would always look for opportunities to stand up and when they do you would be sure that no work would be going on. So, your trick should be on how best you can get them to remain seated at their desks.

Do not trouble yourself with other needs of the employees when you haven’t addressed this immediate one. You would give everything else but as long as they are not comfortable, they would not work. You can try the ergonomic office chairs and see how good the results would be.

The whiplash claims are made against the insurance company that insured the person held liable to your whiplash injury hence the knowledge of the process and details is very important. The claimant should perform the necessary research and study the past case studies and laws to have a glimpse of what is expected. All the necessary evidence and testimonies must be prepared to counter what the insurance company has to oppose.

The best way to take is to hire a professional lawyer. Both your lawyer and the insurer know and have experience in this cases hence will have a water-tight counter arguments that if dealt with by an amateur will lead to losing the claim. So the hiring of a personal lawyer is very crucial to the winning claim; he understands the law better, has experience and will stand better chance to challenge and negotiate with the defence.

Once you engage the lawyer, he will initiate contact with the insurer. At this stage all the correspondence will be guided by the pre-action protocol. The insurance company may opt to settle or the case goes to the court depending on their confidence on winning the case. The pre-action protocol was introduced in 1999 by Lord chief justice Woolf to streamline the personal injury section which was formerly in disarray with the insurance companies taking advantage of the situation to deny whiplash compensation.

Your lawyer should advise you of the direction you should take; to take the whiplash compensation on the table, or sue depending on what the insurance offers and deems reasonable.