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Work Injuries

When you’re injured at work, regardless of how severe the injury is, it can be an inconvenient and stressful experience. Even though you need to take the time to rest and heal, you may be worried about losing money from taking time off of work. This makes sense because you depend on your paycheck to take care of your bills and meet your needs in life.

You’ve given your employer your commitment to be at work on time, and if you’re part of a team you know what it’s like when someone is absent. Knowing you’ll be absent just adds to the stress of your experience and stress can actually prolong your healing.

Work injuries can vary in degree, and while sometimes you may be able to go back to work within a few days, sometimes you can’t. You shouldn’t be punished for being injured. You should be taken care of and compensated while you recover. You are an important part of your team at work and deserve to be covered financially when you experience work injuries.

It is for this reason worker’s compensation was created.

What are work injuries?

When an event or some kind of harmful exposure in the workplace contributes to, or causes a condition, illness, or exacerbates a pre-existing injury, the result is considered to be a work injury.

Any work injuries that take place in the work environment stand a good chance of being covered by worker’s compensation.

What is the work environment?

What is considered to be the work environment can extend beyond the physical premises of the actual business. For example, if employees are working off-site at a festival or a fair in a booth, then that temporary setup is considered to be the workplace. The work environment can also include the equipment and materials used by employees while working on off-site projects.

Work Injuries are not always injuries to the physical body

Work injuries are not just limited to physical injuries, however. They can include illnesses like viruses contracted at work, or food borne illness (food poisoning) from eating contaminated food provided by the work establishment.

If you’ve been injured or fell ill at work or while on the job at a remote location, you may be entitled to recover worker’s compensation in order to help pay your medical bills as well as recover lost wages.

If you think you might qualify, before doing anything, you’ll want to contact an experienced lawyer who can look at the details surrounding your situation and determine whether or not you have a case to pursue. With the right lawyer, you can recover the funds to relieve the stress you’ve experienced from trying to pay your bills and maintain your household without your regular paychecks.

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The short answer is yes, you should care because it’s going to affect the statute of limitations on your claim. It’s important to define what a political subdivision is that way, you know where your claim lies.

A subdivision is city, county, villages, schools, certain administrative agencies. All those are treated under the act differently. Now, if you do sustain an injury or an accident with one of those individuals that I’ve named, then you have one year from the date of your injury to file a written notice, written claim to that subdivision. If you don’t, then your claim is forever barred. Read More

That depends on you, specifically in regards to the length of time it takes for your injuries to improve, how long it takes to get to a point where we can reasonably determine what your future looks like, what additional medical care you require, the cost of such medical care and what permanent restrictions or impairments you have. Read More

The answer to that is almost universally no. The reason for that is the insurance companies like to get in early and offer you a lowball offer in the hopes that they can get you to sign a release of liability waiver. Once that happens, you’re out of luck.

The reason that they send these lowball offers is because you haven’t had a chance yet to properly evaluate your claim. You might still be treating, you might need future medical. There’s also the possibility that you’ve been permanently damaged and you need a doctor to assess that. Read More

Maximum medical improvement or MMI is the point in your injury where you’re about as good as you’re going to get which means you’re not likely to get much better and you’re not likely to get much worse.

It doesn’t mean that you’re all the way better and so for that reason, maximum medical improvement is the point at which your permanent disability benefits are determined. Read More

In order to answer that question, we have to know the specific facts of your case. A lot of factors go into the value of a workers’ compensation case.

First of all, money benefits that are paid to you are based on your wages before the accident. That amount is used then to determine both your temporary disability benefits and your permanent disability benefits. Read More

Yes, it can. In order to modify a child custody order, you have to show what’s called a material change in circumstances.

Now, simply stated what that means is something has to happen. An unanticipated change that if the judge or the parties knew about it when they made the original order, they would have decided differently. Read More

Well, it depends on two things.

First of all, who are you suing and second of all, what are you suing them for? If it’s just general negligence and you’re suing a private person or corporation, it’s four years from the date of accrual of the claim or the date of the accident. Read More

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