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Work laws have been created to guarantee that employees who have been disabled or injured on the job are provided with permanent or fixed monetary awards, making litigation unnecessary. Unfortunately however, companies and private employers sometimes undermine these injury laws and refuse to pay an adequate amount of money to those employees who can no longer work due to injuries incurred while at work. In some instances, aggressive insurance companies have denied legitimate workers’ compensation claims. An insurance carrier may claim that you haven't been injured, or that the injury you suffered wasn’t serious enough to qualify for workers' compensation benefits. If this occurs, you may stand to lose critical benefits, such as job retraining, medical care coverage, and other financial help.
In all of our workers compensation injury cases, we advance all costs. No attorney fees apply unless we are able to obtain a recovery on your behalf.
Almost everyone knows that they may be entitled to workers compensation benefits if they become injured on the job. But, many people do not know that when a worker is seriously hurt on the job, there is often more than one available source of insurance recovery. Our personal injury attorneys will always look to potential third parties for recovery, in addition to the employer. An additional source of compensation often involves a claim based on products liability such as those involving:
You have the right to a safe place of work. The personal injury attorneys at Mitchell S. Sexner & Associates LLC can help you determine which benefits you are entitled to. Workers’ compensation covers your work related injury including:
If you are injured on the job, make sure that you know what kind of benefits you are entitled to. Often, the insurance carrier will move quickly to contact you and begin to make medical payments and lost time payments. Injured workers often incorrectly assume that the insurance company is on their side and that they are receiving all of the benefits for which they are entitled. Unfortunately, many times, the insurance company withholds some of the most important benefits and the injured worker never learns what he or she failed to receive.
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