Today's post comes from Kristina Thompson at the Jernigan Law Firm. How long will the insurance company continue to pay for my medical treatment for my North Carolina workers’ compensation injury? Did you know that in North Carolina injured workers can apply for lifetime medical treatment for an accepted workplace injury? However, there’s one BIG caveat [...]
You've been hurt at work. What are the first things you should think about? Number one: getting well so you can have the best medical recovery and return to work. Second: notifying your employer of the accident. Third: properly filing your claim on a Form 18: Notice of Accident with the North Carolina Industrial [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Brody Ockander of Nebraska. If a worker dies from a work accident or occupational disease, his surviving family members are entitled to death benefits under Nebraska workers'’ compensation. However, proving the death was work-related is sometimes complicated in situations where there is not a clear accident. [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Tom Domer or Wisconsin. We get calls every day from angry injured workers’ who want to sue their employer for negligence. It could be an employer removing a guard on a machine, a foreman ignoring a safety rule, or an injury caused by an employer’s failure [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Tom Domer of Wisconsin. Wisconsin pays worker’s compensation benefits based only on the job on which an employee works, even if the employee’s injury makes it impossible for him to work in his regular job. In these difficult economic times, many workers’ are forced to take [...]
Today’s post comes to us from our colleague Roger Moore of Nebraska. In virtually all workers’’ compensation cases an injured worker has to return to work in some capacity. Often these are very stressful situations and it is not uncommon for issues to arrise including conflict with an employer over what a safe [...]
Today’s post comes to us from our colleagues Matt Funk and John Merlino of Brecher Fishman Pasternack Walsh Tilker & Ziegler in New York. QUESTION: I DID NOT PUNCH IN FOR WORK. DOES THIS MEAN I AM NOT COVERED IF I HAVE AN ACCIDENT? ANSWER: IF YOU ARE AT WORK AND YOU DON’T PUNCH IN, [...]
