by Dennis Beaver | doctor, healthcare, medicine
January 14, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver
“Mr. Beaver, we just received a text from our family doctor that is disturbing,” said “Chelsea,” calling me Monday, Dec. 27 from a small Southern town that has one of the lowest rates of COVID vaccination. “I found your column...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, tattoos
January 7, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver
May an employer require employees to cover up visible tattoos or remove piercings while on the job? That was the question from “Sal” who manages a health and fitness spa in the Pacific Northwest. Frazzled, he called my office,...
by Dennis Beaver | drug use, lawyers
December 31, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Mr. Beaver, should we hire a private attorney or insist that our son, ‘Tom,’ just ask for a public defender for his possession of a controlled substance charge? He was arrested with several other young men in a car that had...
by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance, consumer
December 24, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“In June of 2021 you had an hysterical article about a parking lot accident at a Jack in the Box in St. Louis, Missouri that involved a cast of characters suitable for Saturday Night Live,” began an email from ‘Eddie,’ a retired...
by Dennis Beaver | annuity, attorney, attorney fees, lawyers, settlement
December 17, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
Friends of this column, Brian Kabateck of Kabateck LLP, and his partner Shant Karnikian have earned a nationwide reputation as among the most successful plaintiff’s lawyers handling cases on behalf of consumers against...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership, workplace
December 10, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“I am CEO of a logistics company that works with shippers to streamline delivery of goods to retail businesses all across America. Our office is a beehive of activity, especially now. We need all hands on deck at all times. “Last...
by Dennis Beaver | background checks, lawyers
December 3, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Two of my employees were involved in an auto accident that was not their fault. They were about to hire an out-of-town law firm that advertises heavily on television because the attorney in the commercials is a big fan of the...
by Dennis Beaver | business, career, employment, lawyers
November 26, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
No one can ignore the toll COVID and issues flowing from it have taken on the American workforce — stories of first responders, physicians, parents at their wits end facing something they had never experienced before, burnout....
by Dennis Beaver | business, complaint, scam
November 19, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
In need of a good laugh in these depressing times? Read on. Make a list of the insurance companies that we see advertised all the time and then type BBB – it hardly matters which name you enter. A Better Business Bureau...
by Dennis Beaver | auto repair, bias, business, career, employment, politics
November 5, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Bruce” is CEO of a Chicago IT company with over 60 employees, where “over the summer of 2021, a very bad feeling began to take hold,” he told me in a lengthy phone call. “Suddenly a great lack of trust became apparent. Some of...
