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Postal and Federal Employee Disability & Injury Compensation Laws under FERS & CSRS: Decisions & Complexities

Posted onApril 6, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The complexities inherent in modern technological life, and the methodologies of arriving at a decision-making process, make for a consciousness counterintuitive to one’s natural state of being. Rousseau depicted a romanticized version of man’s state of nature; but the point of his philosophical thesis was to provide a stark contrast to the civilized world of social compacts and the justification for societal intrusion into liberties and rights reserved exclusively and unequivocally. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Quiet Subtlety of Excellence

Posted onMarch 5, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Failure blares like a discordant trumpet in a confined space with no exit; success flows like the quiet stream on the other side of the mountain, barely noticed. In law, it is the appeal, and the written order issued therefrom, which receives the attention of the daily press. Yet, if one pauses to consider: The reason for the appeal, is the lack of success at the trial court level. For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suddenly find themselves the target of workplace hostility because of a medical condition which now prevents them from performing one or more of the essential elements of their job, it is often a surprise that they have become a focal point of interest. […] Read More …

Federal Employees Disability Retirement Systems: The Quarantined Mind

Posted onJanuary 24, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

From early childhood, the necessity of imposing constraints and conformity produces the positive effect of a well-ordered society. But corollary and unforeseen consequences often occur, as in the quashing of creativity and mindsets which step outside of the proverbial “box”. The problem with people talking about thinking “outside of the box” is that such a thought process itself constitutes nothing more than mundane conventional wisdom. Those who have considered thoughts beyond the artifice of social concordance […]
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Disability Retirement from the USPS and other Federal Government Agencies: Belonging

Posted onDecember 15, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are no more causes by which people live, and those who do, do so within an artifice of self-justifying chameleons of linguistic gibberish. Once upon a time, grand philosophical systems were propounded; from the historical backdrop of Plato’s Republic, to the teleological schemata of Aristotle’s Metaphysics; to Aquinas’ Christian worldview, Kant’s bifurcation of the known and knowable worlds; but with deconstructionism, linguistic playgrounds of modernity, and the debunking of political innocence with the advent of information technology and the dissemination of all things private melded into the public arena, where Facebook constitutes the quantitative assemblage of friends, likes and self-promoted happiness on virtual images of frozen smiles and milk-white teeth; and in the end, what we are left with is a needed sense of belonging. […]

OPM Disability Retirement for Postal Workers & other Federal Civilian Government Employees: The Ronin

Posted onDecember 13, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The ronin is a masterless samurai; he is one who was released from any obligations from the daimyo, or feudal lord, who retained the samurai for protection and was paid a stipend. The literal translation of the term is often ascribed as a “wave man”, or one who is let go to travel adrift amidst the turbulence of the ocean waves. In modern usage, it refers to an individual who is between jobs, but can still imply vagrancy or unstable character. For the injured/ill Federal and Postal employee, filing for Federal OPM Disability Retirement through one’s agency […]

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