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Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Added to Compassionate Allowance List

Are Company Doctors Accurately Reporting Workplace Injuries?

In handling workers’ comp cases, we have found that company doctors may downplay the severity of accidents that occur at work. Injured workers come to attorneys complaining of problems that continue to hurt weeks after the incident. Or worse, they are concerned because they received an icepack and a band-aid from the company doctor when […]
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Am I going to be able to get another job when this is all over?

The overwhelming majority or our clients return to work. Fortunately, a fairly small number are so severely injured that they’re never able to return to work. It is fairly unlikely that your company is going to blackball you after you’re gone. Most companies understand the legal risk they take in doing that and many have […]
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What happens if I cannot return to my old job?

March 30, 2016
If you cannot earn as much money as you did prior to your injury you are entitled to be paid two-thirds of your wage loss for a period of 500 weeks from the date of the injury. In some rare exceptions you may be able to be paid beyond that 500 week date if you […]
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I’m having trouble with my return to work. What do I do?

March 29, 2016
First, tell your employer. Preferably in writing. Second, tell your rehabilitation nurse if you have one. Again, preferably in writing. Third, tell you doctor. And tell your doctor that you’ve already told your employer and your rehabilitation nurse without any real success. And here is why it’s important to put things in writing. You want […]
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What happens if I cannot perform my light duty job?

March 22, 2016
There are a couple of factors here. First, if your employer is asking you to exceed the restrictions then you should politely state what your restrictions are and clarify which portion of the job you feel you cannot do. You may be wondering if a doctor can force you to go back to work? We […]
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