Designate Your Treating Physician Before You Suffer a Workers' Compensation Injury
Seldom do workers in California consider if they have a legal right to select their treating physician before they suffer a Workers' Compensation injury. Although this may necessarily be from a list of physicians provided by their employer (presuming that the employer is ...
What Happens to My Family If I Die From a Work Accident?
If your death is the result of an accident on the job your “dependents,” (i.e. wife, minor children, etc.) may be entitled to Workers’ Compensation ...
Fibromyalgia, Is It Real and Can It Be Caused or Aggravated by My Work?
There was a period years ago where all one had to do to be deemed 100 percent permanently disabled from fibromyalgia was to memorize 18 areas on your ...
Workers' Compensation Benefits: Are They Enough to Get You By?
That depends on your needs. We are currently talking about only two thirds of your salary or wages based upon what the insurance community calls your ...
Doing Business Without Workers Compensation Insurance? It Can Be a Recipe for Disaster
I don’t know how many times my secretary has told me that some small business owner was in the lobby wanting to talk to me about a “problem” he or she ...
Many of my readers will recall that in my prior articles, I have discussed such things as psychiatric Workers Compensation claims, sleep disturbance ...
A Workers' Compensation Claim...Will My Employer's Insurance Company Secretly Take Video of Me If I File?
Possibly. The more suspicious the employer is regarding your worker’s compensation claim, or concerning the extent of your disability, the more likely ...
Did My Heart Attack Have Anything To Do With My Job?
Possibly, and you don’t necessarily have to work in a “high stress” work environment such as driving a bus or working on the New York Stock Exchange. ...