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Winding up, also known as liquidation, refers to the legal and financial process of dissolving a company. It involves ceasing operations, selling assets, settling debts, and ultimately removing the company from the official business registry.
Here's a breakdown of the key aspects of winding up:
Reasons for Winding Up:
Insolvency: This is the most common reason, where the company cannot pay its debts. Creditors may initiate a compulsory winding up to recover their dues.
Voluntary Closure: The owners may decide to close the company due to reasons like reaching business goals, facing losses, or merging with another company.
Deadlock: If shareholders or directors cannot agree on how to run the company, a court may order a winding up.
Types of Winding Up:
Voluntary Winding Up: This is initiated by the company's shareholders through a resolution passed by a majority vote. There are two main types:
Members' Voluntary Winding Up: The company is solvent (has enough assets to pay off its debts) and shareholders will receive any remaining assets after debts are settled.
Creditors' Voluntary Winding Up: The company is insolvent and creditors will be prioritized in receiving payment from the sale of assets.
Compulsory Winding Up: This is initiated by a court order, typically at the request of creditors, government agencies, or even by the company itself if it's insolvent.
Process of Winding Up:
Appointment of Liquidator: A qualified professional is appointed to oversee the winding-up process. They are responsible for selling assets, paying off debts, and distributing any remaining funds.
Cease Trading: The company stops its regular business operations.
Notification of Creditors: Creditors are informed about the winding up and invited to submit their claims.
Sale of Assets: The company's assets are sold to generate cash to pay off creditors.
Payment of Debts: Creditors are paid according to a set order of priority, with secured creditors receiving payment before unsecured creditors.
Distribution to Shareholders: If there are any remaining funds after all debts are settled, they are distributed to shareholders according to their ownership stake.
Dissolution: Once all claims are settled and distributions made, the company is officially dissolved and removed from the business register.
Impact of Winding Up:
Employees: Employees will likely lose their jobs during the winding-up process.
Creditors: Creditors may not recover their debts in full, especially if the company is insolvent.
Shareholders: Shareholders may not receive any payout if the company's debts exceed its assets.
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Proving a TBI from a Legal Perspective
1. Proving a TBI from a
Legal Perspective
By Jeremiah J Underhill, Legal Director
Disability Rights of West Virginia
2. The purpose of this presentation : To aid and assist an
individual or their loved ones in beginning the process
of establishing the existence of a TBI.
In general any type of brain injury litigation is
complicated and requires extensive expert testimony
and scientific data. Since no two brain injuries are the
same there is no one prototypical case model to follow
but there are several consistent themes and guiding
principles that can make the task at hand less
daunting.
3. 10 Things you need to know about
Brain Injury Litigation
1) The process is laborious
2) The recovery period varies greatly and can be extremely slow in a lot of cases.
3) The advancement of new technologies is helping to objectify brain injuries.
4) If necessary get SSDI
5) Injuries to the frontal lobe can be subtle and the most destructive
6) The basic tactics of insurance companies
7) Loss of cognitive reserve
4. 10 Things you need to know about Brain
Injury Litigation – continued
8) If possible, attempt to return to work
9) Get highly competent and skilled medical help
10) Start early (the sooner the better)
5. The process is laborious
Cons
This type of litigation takes an extremely long time
Presenting objective evidence is challenging since an MRI and CT may show
nothing.
There is an assumption that the person is a “faker”
Pros
Juries are sympathetic to brain injury that can be proven.
New technology is helping people objectify their injuries.
6. The process is laborious…continued
Other considerations
All of your medical, employment and educational records are going to be
reviewed and called in to question. This includes psychological and
psychiatric records. This includes records from when you were a minor.
7. The recovery period varies greatly and
can be extremely slow in a lot of cases.
The recovery process for is always different because almost no two brain
injuries are identical. This can confuse a jury and cause them to no believe in
the injury.
A mild traumatic brain injury can still cause lasting permanent harm but the
effects may not arise immediately.
It is generally accepted in the medical community that person will recover
from a mild traumatic brain injury within 6 weeks 70-80% of the time. But a
person with a pre-existing condition including any of the following can have
significantly more difficulties in the recovery process: prior brain injury,
previous psychological or psychiatric difficulties.
Insurance companies try to convince the jury that the person is a faker or at
worse they are still in the recovery period and in a few more months they’ll
be fine.
8. The recovery period varies greatly and can be
extremely slow in a lot of cases – continued
It is easy for the for the person who suffered the injury to not even realize
the effects of the injury. They “lack the self-awareness” that any change in
them has occurred.
When someone doesn’t recognize their own injuries it becomes critical that
friends, family, co-workers, expressed what they observing and their concerns
to the medical professionals treating the person.
9. Recovery period…continued
Symptoms may subside and then reappear.
Returning to the “real world” can cause symptoms to reappear or new
symptoms to arise.
- Returning to work
- Engaging in social activities
10. The advancement of new technologies is
helping to objectify brain injuries.
There have been some major advancements in brain injury research,
treatment and general knowledge over the past 20 years.
New medical technology is greatly improving a doctors ability to properly
diagnose a brain injury.
We are no longer handcuffed by a normal MRI or CT scan.
11. New Technology …continued
MRI/DTI- (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) an MRI-based neuroimaging technique
which makes it possible to estimate the location, orientation and anisotrophy
of the brain’s white matter tracts. White matter is the pale tissue that
connects each lobe of the brain. (connection wires) Damage to the white
matter can cause a disruption in the brain’s ability communicate between
lobes.
12. New Technology …continued
MRI/MRS – (Spectroscopy) a noninvasive diagnostic test for measuring
biochemical changes in the brain. MRS can compare the chemical composition
of normal brain tissue with damaged tissue. MRS looks for an imbalance brain
molecules due to trauma.
13. New Technology …continued
MRI/SWI (susceptibility weighted imagining) – an MRI sequence which is particularly sensitive to
compounds which distort the local magnetic field and as such make it useful in detecting very
small bleeding referred to as micro hemorrhages. Micro hemorrhages are the result of brain
trauma. After a traumatic brain injury there could d be literally hundreds of these micro
hemorrhages that a traditonal MRI or CT scan would not detect.
14. If necessary get SSDI
If you have suffered a TBI and are unable to work then you should
seek Social Security Disability benefits as soon as possible.
If you recover and can return to work you great. The SSDI system
has a process for a benefit recipient to try and return to the
workforce.
Trial work period - any month where you earn over $850 is
considered a trial work month. If you're self-employed, any month
where you work more than 80 hours is also considered a trial work
month. Your trial period will continue until you've worked nine
months within a 60-month timeframe.
15. SSDI …continued
Once your trial work period (Extended Period of Eligibility) is over you will
still receive benefits in any month where you earning are below what is called
substantially gainful income. (SGA = $1,180 or $1,970 if you are blind) (You
can offset your earnings with disability related expenses)
The Extended Period is a protection for the beneficiary in case they are
unable to work consistently as a result of their disability.
Should you again be unable to work within the next 5 years you can have
your SSDI benefits reinstated.
16. Injuries to the frontal lobe can be subtle and
the most destructive
What is the frontal lobe?
- It is the front 1/3 of the brain
- The largest of the 4 brain lobes
- It the portion of the brain most susceptible to injury
17. Fontal Lobe …continued
Why is it so important?
- It is the most sophisticated part of human body
a) Contains the primary motor cortex (controls movement)
b) Contains most of the dopamine-sensitive neurons of the cerebral cortex.
These control impulses, attention span, short-term memory, perception,
awareness and planning.
c) Damage to the fontal lobe cause a person to be disinhibited, have high
anxiety or deep depression.
18. The basic tactics of insurance companies
The recording of conversations and using these conversations as evidence.
If your injury was from a car accident do not let the car be destroyed
You have no right of privacy to trash
Photos, Photos, Photos….
Every bit of your social media activity will be heavily scrutinized.
Insurance companies use lots of “highly qualified” experts.
Arguing you are still the same person. You’ll need lots of before and after
witnesses to refute this claim.
19. Loss of cognitive reserve
Cognitive Reserve – the brain’s ability to prevent future damage and protect
itself from serious neurological conditions such as dementia, and Alzheimer’s
disease.
The loss of brain cells due to trauma equals a loss in cognitive reserve.
The more cognitive reserve one loses the more likely they are develop
dementia or Alzheimer’s and the more likely it is to occur at an earlier age.
20. If possible, attempt to return to work
It’s the effort not the outcome that is important here. Juries want to see an
attempt to return to work.
Even if a doctor explains that work is impossible try your best to make an
attempt.
21. Get highly competent and skilled medical
help
Seek out facilities and medical professionals who only specialize in traumatic
brain injuries.
Make sure these facilities and professionals are using the most state-of-the-
art in medical technology and following the latest in medical research.
22. Start early (the sooner the better)
Evidence can disappear quickly
- Video surveillance or physical evidence
- Witnesses disappear (or memories fade)
Personal Injury Coverage (PIP) (you must seek medical treatment with X
amount days depending on your policy)
Getting injury diagnosed quickly is critical to recovery and improving overall
quality of life
Statistically the first 6 months after a brain injury is the time when treatment
is most effective.
23. Start early (the sooner the
better)…continued
Quick and effective rehabilitation is essential
Keeping your mind active is an effective self-treatment.
The following activities are some BEST rehabilitation practices.
- Conversing and socially interacting with people
- Reading
- Exercise (promotes neurogeneration)