National Suicide Prevention Week (“NSPW”) is September 8th-14th this year. Each year, the nation’s largest suicide prevention organization, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (“AFSP”), hosts NSPW. One focus of NSPW this year is: Creating A Safety Net.This blog is a little bit about how I created a Safety Net for myself, and why you […]
Breaking News in the Field of Eating Disorders ResearchThis week, researchers in the field of eating disorders announced ground-breaking results from a study that was a worldwide, collaborative effort amongst scientists, noted bloggers, advocates, clinicians, treatment centers, organizations, families, those who have suffered from anorexia nervosa, and more. The study, with results published in Nature […]
DowDuPont merger attempts to thwart DuPont’s promised pensions to employees that helped build the company. Kantor & Kantor lawyers are representing U.S. retirees of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in a class action lawsuit after a series of corporate maneuvers taken by the company over the last four years left workers’ retirement […]
Your claim for pension benefits has been approved! A check came in the mail from your pension plan. You open it, look at the amount of your monthly benefit, and wonder how the dollar amount was calculated. You shrug and deposit the check, assuming the pension plan has correctly calculated what you are entitled to […]
Eating disorders have been shown to have high rates of hospitalizations and death (Arcelus, Mitchell, Wales, & Nielsen, 2011; Klump, Bulik, Kaye, Treasure, & Tyson, 2009). So it is imperative that both those who struggle with eating disorders and their caregivers are able to identify competent treatment providers.This is the third part of our series […]
It’s 2019, and by now everyone knows what they need to know about eating disorders and we don’t need to raise awareness, right? Of course not. Why? Because:At least one person every 62 minutes dies from an eating disorder in the United States alone. (Unfortunately, I, and many of you reading this, know of well […]
Eating disorders are complex diseases, and they do not exist in a vacuum. National surveys estimate that as many as 20 million women and 10 million men will struggle with an eating disorder at some point in their lives.About This Year’s Awareness WeekEating Disorders Awareness Week is an international awareness event, fighting the myths and […]
Our client is a young woman who entered residential treatment for bulimia nervosa in September 2011. Prior to September 2011, her eating disorder went untreated for ten years. Over the two year period prior to September 2011, the young woman cycled in and out of outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, partial hospitalization treatment, intensive outpatient treatment […]
We Have Achieved Tier 1 Ranking in Insurance LawAt Kantor & Kantor, LLP, we are proud to announce that we have recently been named in the latest edition of “Best Law Firms,” a publication of Best Lawyers® and U.S. News & World Report. We were regionally ranked in Tier 1 in insurance law, compared with […]
September 10, 2018 was #WorldSuicidePreventionDay and National Suicide Prevention Week runs through September 15, 2018. Some of the reasons we need to talk about suicide include:Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death, and we all know someone affected by it;Each year, 45,000 Americans die by suicide; and54% of those who died by suicide in […]
