Workers' compensation can cover lost hours, rehabilitation and medical bills if you get injured on the job. To ensure you receive your benefits in a timely manner, follow these important steps. 1. Report Your Injury To qualify for benefits, your injury must have...
Workers' compensation insurance exists to help injured workers pay for medical bills and missed work. The same concept applies to those workers that treat the injured, including nurses, doctors and other health care professionals. Common injuries to health care...
If you work on a construction site, you know that occupational injuries are common. Workers’ compensation laws exist to protect injured personnel. These claims provide monetary relief for families dealing with medical expenses. After a job-related injury, you may be...
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...