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you can definitely count on karl truman as he is with us in the studio to
answer your questions live at two seven six two one one eight if you'd like to
call in now be a great time to get a question answered and we also have a mailbag
full of questions and karl you know
you just amaze me with how many things you're involved with your
handling goes on and on karl you're handling a lot of veterans plans right
now but you're also working on behalf of
many different organizations that help veterans a marine corps marathon one
thing you're doing your big athlete yeah i come out in october and i'm
going be running it's my tenth marathon of the marine corps marathon which was
my very first marathon
i want to do something special this time is that i'm going to be raising
money to raise money
for a run for the warriors that's an organization that
helps wounded veterans with different
you know facilities and and you know hoping all the money and one of the great things
about this organization the reason i chose this organization
is that
it's all-volunteer so hundred percent of the money all goes to help
the wounded veterans amazing and i'm gonna be putting it together a web
site soon
it's not quite there yet but you know hopefully within the next couple weeks
it gonna be ready to launch for for people to go on to my website
to
make donations and pledges for the wounded veterans we know that's
always
been in your heart is just to do something like that because of your
history
well it's something i really believe in i mean it's it's great that
you know to be able to to for anyone for all of us to find something that
we're passionate about we want to support and really wanna
do something to to try to give back that's right we're taking your phone calls right
now two seven six two one one eight karl truman in the house
to take your questions karl last week we were talking a little bit about veterans
claims and this week you kind of wanna hit on it again
yes i am become accredited by to to be able to represent
veterans for the veterans administration for disability claims you have to become
you have to be accredited by the VA
and i've become accredited by the VA to handle veterans claims
and so so that's something again that i'm that i'm really
interested in helping
veterans for disability claims
now you know it does not include like if
sometimes i get calls for veterans asking about
VA housing or education benefits those types of things i'm not a handling
but people who have become wounded injured
while on active duty
and it doesn't have to be during combat i mean certainly there are a lot of
veterans claims whether it's
you know vietnam
or any of the wars iraq afghanistan certainly those are very important
claims but
one of the aspects about VA disability is that
if you're on active duty
and you become injured
even if it's not in combat
you still can have a VA disability claim so let's say that sergeant tells
you to move that car and it's got it's parking brake on you strain your back
now as as long if it's documented while you were on the active service
then yes she could have a
VA disability claim wonderful
i know and i know you've been following the news about the medal of honor winner
please don't say winner
that's one of my
that is one of my recipient of
awarded yes a recipient but when i hear people in the media say that
someone won the medal of honor it makes it sound like a contest very good correction
and that is something that i really try to point out that
please don't say he won the medal of honor it's not a contest
absolutely so the recipient of the medal of honor was petry who actually
threw grenades out from a huge group of rangers
blowing his hand off in the process
and still managed to lead his group
to safety that's right very very which is incredible act of courage and
selflessness yeah on the other
thing people sometimes mistakenly call it the congressional medal of honor
its not it is
you know
approved by congress but it is the medal of honor it not the congressional
medal of honor absolutely right
well you know its always good to know that you can call karl at two seven six
two one one eight with all of the questions that you have for
legal issues you can also send
emails to you
karl truman and you can contact us as well
karltruman dot com
karl tell us about your two books
and yes
they have very good information in them we wanna hear more about them
well i do have
have two books one one book which has had a tremendous response is wolfs in sheep's
clothing what your insurance company doesn't want you to know very good information
i mean i've i even had to get a r reorder of those because i went thourgh them
so quickly
and
if someone does want one of my books they can call my office and we'll be glad
to send a a free copy
which the wolf in sheep's clothing was also listed as a bestseller on amazon
dot com
congratulations and the second book
second book is the truth in lawyer advertising it talks about a lot of the
catch phrases and things that you see in lawyer advertising and what they
really mean
and 0:05:15.420,0:05:17.320 you know some of that for example
there's some of the there's an advertisement
on television that we see all the time which is actually a chiropractor
that looks like a lawyer add it's really kind of interesting whenever i
sit point out to some one well you know he's really a chiropractor from
tampa florida their response is really
yeah nobody knows so are there any guidelines as far as it amazing
shooting a commercial i mean a
certain amount of advertise that has to go on is there anything else
well there are ethics rules that attorneys have to comply with you know
non attorneys unfortunately don't have to comply with any rules they do whatever
they want
and one of the other aspects to this is that i point out in the book is that
something that you would think that he is
very basic
that you shouldn't even have to ask but
sometime you have to make sure that the lawyers even licensed here because there
are lawyers on television
from florida from texas from other parts of the country
that
that aren't even licensed to practice law here in kentucky or indiana
now you see those on that guy's the guys lawyer commercial if you're a dad
and you're getting a divorce we wanna help you and then says that their
licensed in ohio and wisconsin and its like why are you advertising in this market yeah
well there are some that place what are called nation ads so they could
be in texas
and they'll just blast a cable advertisement all over the country so what do they do
get somebody like you who is licensed to handle the case for them
well
i don't know i mean some try to do it themselves and
and like i say there's there's one there's a a law firm that
we see on TV
every single day right here
but they have a local office here
but the lawyers on
camera are not
even licensed to practice law here
they're from they're from Tampa Florida
if you wanna send your questions to karl truman you can check him out at trumanlaw dot
com i love the new telephone number it two two two twenty two twenty two
any questions that you have that involve personal injury law and karl truman
can handle it all for you in kentucky and indiana right dial that number look up
trumanlaw dot com we'll have him back next week
you can count on the colonel karl truman thanks for being with us thank you