When a case has gone on for a while or serious medical care is being recommended or the injured worker is not progressing as hoped in therapy, it fairly common for the insurance company to assign a nurse case manager to the file. The way that a nurse case manager is described to a worker […]
A Spy in Your Camp – The Nurse Case Manager
What if the Accident Was My Fault?
Virtually every trucking company will do a review following a workplace accident to determine whether the employee involved was at fault for the accident. That happened with yours … and the company says that you are at fault for the accident. Now what? The good piece of news for you is that the company’s finding […]
Filling Out Accident Reports
One of the most common things you will be asked to do after you report an on-the-job injury is to fill out an accident report. These are things that can be minefields for the unwary. First, you should know that there is no legal requirement from a worker’s comp perspective that you complete an accident […]
Injuries happening during hours of service breaks
The DOT hours of service regulations are the bane of just about every trucker and trucking company. How often have you been 2 hours from home and were forced to take your off-duty time when you could have just finished the trip and gotten home. The mandatory hours of rest routinely puts drivers on the […]
“Tell them it happened some other way …..”
Tell ’em it happened some other way …. When your supervisor tells you that is what you should do after an on-the-job accident, that should make the hairs on the back of your neck stand straight up. And doing it is just the kind of thing that can kill your case – costing you thousands […]
Selling Your Case Short
It is pretty easy for me to pick out the person most likely to sell your case short: you. The hard truth is that there is a lot that goes into evaluating a case for settlement. It takes understanding the legal framework, and of the medical issues. When you don’t know that, you pick a […]
I’ve Got an Offer – Now Is the Time to Hire a Worker’s Compensation Lawyer
You may see the subject line and think, “That can’t be right at all …” but hear me out. Let’s assume that things have gone pretty well for you so far: you have gotten your disability checks while you were off work, your medical expenses have gotten paid, and they made you an offer. You’re […]
Uuuuunnhh! Lifting Injuries and Worker’s Compensation
One of the really common kinds of injuries that all blue-collar workers suffer is a lifting injury. Whether it is loading or unloading trailer, carrying a tarp or tools, or doing anything where you are lifting, carrying, or pulling something, as a truck driver you are at risk for a lifting injury. Lifting injuries come […]
Firing Your Worker’s Compensation Lawyer
Everyone starts an attorney-client relationship hoping that it will be a smooth one, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out. Sometimes there are performance issues, sometimes there are communication issues, sometimes the lawyer and client are just not each other’s cup of tea. For whatever reason, it sometimes happens that the client begins to give […]
One Thing a Lawyer Can Never Tell You During an Initial Phone Call …
Let’s pretend for a minute that you have decided to hire a lawyer and are talking to a few on the phone to decide who you might feel comfortable with, and one of them tells you that he knows your case is “worth” a certain amount of money …. and that number is one which […]
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