If you develop an illness or injury because of your job, you may need financial help to cover your medical bills and lost wages as your recover. However, you might worry about the stigma you could face in the workplace if you file a workers’ compensation claim. You...
If you have been denied workers’ compensation or you have been told that your benefits will be cut, it is important not to give up, get dejected or panic; workers’ compensation insurance companies will always try to limit or deny benefits. They may deny that the...
If you or a loved one has suffered a serious on-the-job injury, it is critically important to protect your rights. You may be entitled to significant benefits in the form of workers’ compensation, but one wrong move can prove catastrophic; an employer’s workers’...
The workers’ compensation process is immensely complex and fraught with pitfalls for an unsuspecting applicant/claimant. One wrong move can substantially limit or even compromise benefits/compensation altogether. Simply put, workers’ compensation companies will do...
When employees are injured at work, they have the right to pursue a workers’ compensation claim to get paid for their medical treatment and lost wages from time off work. The process of filing this claim and getting a settlement may go smoothly or may result in...
If you’ve been injured at work and need to file a workers’ compensation claim, you may have to face issues like claim denials, deadlines, independent medical exams, or insurance companies that are less than friendly. When these issues arise, you need a workers’...
It is not unusual for the employer’s insurance company to drag its heels when it comes to honoring a workers’ compensation claim for an injured employee, or even for them to deny it outright. Such insurance companies are often interested in finding any...
A Notice of Intent to Discontinue Benefits (NOID) is a form that is filled out by an insurer or employer and sent to someone receiving workers’ compensation benefits to inform them that they intend to stop paying or to reduce the amount of benefits being paid....
An IME for workers’ compensation is an independent medical examination that is done by a doctor other than your treating physician. This third-party doctor is usually chosen by the employer or the employer’s insurance company and is intended to be an...
Because all states require that employers carry workers’ compensation insurance that covers the medical bills and lost wages for employees who are hurt at work, employees, in general, cannot sue their employers for work-related injuries. This is designed to be a...