Who Chooses the Doctor?
The workers’ compensation system provides important rights and responsibilities for both employees and employers. Employees can rest easy knowing that they can receive benefits and medical care costs if they…
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Handymen, Nannies, Small Businesses, and Workers’ Compensation
Millions of Americans run their own small businesses. Whether that business is the primary source of income for the family or just a side job to help provide supplemental income,…
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Work Restrictions and Limitations
Following a work-related injury, the injured worker will need to take many steps, including paperwork and obtaining medical treatment. In most cases, an injured worker will want to return to…
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Death and Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ compensation exists to help make sure that an employee who sustains a work-related injury receives appropriate compensation for the injury, as well as reimbursement for medical costs required to…
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Slip and Falls in Workers’ Compensation Cases
Diligent employers take important steps to reduce the chances that their employees will be injured in the course and scope of their employment. These steps may include keeping equipment up…
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When to hire a PI
Employers work hard to make sure that their employees are safe from injury on the job. Unfortunately, there are times that despite the most careful precautions, an employee sustains a…
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Acupuncture, Chiropractors, and Workers’ Compensation
After an employee sustains a work-related injury, there are many steps that will need to be taken, ranging from paperwork to reporting the injury to insurance company to reporting certain…
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Workers’ Compensation and Medical Marijuana
Healthcare is a major industry in the United States, and advances are frequently made in medical technology, genetics, and pharmaceuticals. Medical Marijuana is one area where there have been many…
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Causation, Lung Disease, and Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ compensation is designed to cover a wide variety of work related injuries that your employees may sustain during the course and in the scope of their employment. Most people…
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Shift Work Disorder
The workers’ compensation system is designed to help protect both the employer and the employee. The system helps make sure that the injured worker gets appropriate compensation for industrial injuries…
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Beltran v Structural Steel
Although many may think of the workers’ compensation system as quite adversarial, like other civil law suits, workers’ compensation has some unique features which require that employer and employee work…
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Functional Capacity Evaluations
After a worker sustains a work-related injury in the course and scope of their employment duties, the worker will need to obtain medical treatment. This treatment varies depending on the…
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