You have rights after being injured at work. Your life may forever change after a workplace accident so it is important to file a workers’ compensation claim to help with your lost wages, medical expenses, and other bills.
With so much at stake, strong legal representation is vital. We can help at JML Law, A Professional Law Corporation.
Head and brain injuries can dramatically affect a person’s life. These injuries can lead to significant physical and cognitive disabilities that leave a worker permanently disabled. When a head or brain injury occurs, an injured worker must be able to receive full coverage of that medical expenses and lost wages.
Workers in Los Angeles can experience hearing loss in a variety of ways. This often occurs when a worker is exposed to loud noises for long periods of time, but can also occur due to certain chemicals in the workplace. If an employer fails to provide proper hearing protection for workers, they should be held liable for hearing loss injuries.
Back and neck injuries in the workplace happen in a variety of ways, including slips, trips, and falls, motor vehicle accidents, repetitive motions, and more. Any worker in Los Angeles who sustains a neck or back injury should be able to receive workers’ compensation benefits.
Most workers rely on their hands to perform their daily job functions. However, our hands are also vulnerable to serious injuries. Common causes of hand injuries in Los Angeles include tool mishaps, vehicle accidents, falls, crush injuries, and more.
Shoulder and elbow injuries can significantly limit a worker’s ability to perform their job duties. These injuries can affect a person’s range of motion and leave them facing significant time away from work. Shoulder and elbow injuries can occur in a variety of ways, including sudden traumatic incidents as well as through repetitive motions over longer periods of time.
Injuries to the lower extremities are incredibly common and can lead to an employee missing a significant amount of work. These injuries can happen in any industry, and most often occur due to slips, trips, and falls or in incidents involving vehicles or heavy equipment. When a worker sustains a knee, ankle, or foot injury, they should be able to secure compensation for their medical bills and lost income.
Construction sites are high-risk areas for workers. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), approximately 20% of all workplace fatalities each year occur in the construction industry. Workers injured at a construction site may be able to recover damages beyond what workers’ comp pays, particularly if their injury was caused by a third-party.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a type of repetitive motion injury that affects a person’s wrist, hand, and finger mobility. While carpal tunnel syndrome generally develops over time due to repetitive motions, these are considered work injuries and should be fairly compensated.
Many workplaces use hazardous chemicals on a regular basis, and employers are required to warn employees of the dangers. They must also provide proper protective equipment for employees who work around hazardous chemicals.
Workplace injuries in Los Angeles are not uncommon, but they can leave employees suffering under the weight of medical bills and lost income. Workers in Los Angeles must be able to secure compensation in the aftermath of an on-the-job injury.
All too often, workers’ compensation claims in Los Angeles are delayed by an employer or an insurer. Unfortunately, there is often no reasonable justification given for these delays, and an injured worker is left wondering whether or not they will receive coverage for their injury.
When a workers’ compensation claim in Los Angeles is denied, an injured employee is often left wondering what their options are. An attorney will help appeal a claim denial and take the case all the way to trial if that is what is necessary to secure compensation for an on-the-job injury.
Not all workplace injuries are traumatic in nature. In many cases, the stress of a workplace can be detrimental to an employee’s emotional and mental health. Stress-related injuries that are caused by the workplace environment should be compensated like any other work injury.
An Independent Medical Review (IMR) occurs when an insurance carrier that is covering the workers’ compensation claim decides that they no longer want to cover some for all of your treatment. If this happens before you have made a full recovery, you need to secure an attorney in order to fight back and continue to receive your compensation.
Spinal cord injuries are devastating and often lead to long-term disabilities for victims. The total lifetime cost of a spinal cord injury can reach into the millions of dollars. Anyone who sustains a Los Angeles workplace spinal cord injury should be able to secure compensation for these costs.
A worker can experience a torn rotator cuff due to a sudden traumatic injury or from repetitive motions repeated over long periods of time. These injuries can lead to debilitating pain and keep a worker from performing their job duties.
Amputation injuries can affect every aspect of a person’s life. They can prevent a person from enjoying everyday activities and from returning to work. Anyone who experiences and on-the-job amputation injury deserves fair compensation for their permanent disability.
Vision and hearing loss regularly occur in the workplace, sometimes due to sudden traumatic incidents and sometimes due to long-term exposure to hazardous materials and sounds. These work injuries can significantly affect a person’s ability to perform their job, and employees should be fairly compensated when this occurs.
Financial compensation from workers’ compensation benefits should cover most losses and damages that you incur from being injured at work or if a family member is killed in a work-related accident. Losses covered by workers’ compensation include:
Our attorneys assist workers injured in construction accidents and those suffering from all types of injuries. We know you may have questions about your rights and what benefits are available. Visit our FAQ page to learn more about common workplace accidents.
Your employer or its insurance provider can challenge any part of your claim. The insurance company can require an independent medical exam (IME) by a physician of its choice, who is typically unfavorable to workers. We can help you challenge this IME, get a second opinion, and see a doctor of your choice for treatment.
Our Los Angeles workers’ compensation attorneys can challenge several aspects of the insurance company’s case, which often attempts to deny, delay, and diminish work injury compensation. We have over 40 years of experience advocating for injury victims in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Francisco and throughout California, we can help you secure maximum compensation while seeing a doctor of your choice within the California Medical Provider Network (MPN).
If you were injured by a dangerous or defective product, you might have an underlying third-party liability injury claim worth pursuing against a manufacturer, distributor, retailer, or another liable party in addition to your workers’ compensation claim. This will complicate your legal case, but we can help you navigate the road to maximizing your injury compensation.
Our lawyers can help you appeal insurance denial on several levels and guide you through the process. We are also very experienced in pursuing wrongful termination claims against employers. We will aggressively advocate for your best possible outcome in all legal forums and resolve legal disputes in your best interests.
Our goal is to aid your recovery as much as possible, help you get back to work, and allow you to have peace of mind in the process. We work to ensure that your past, present, and future medical and financial needs are covered.
There are various deadlines in place that victims of work injuries need to be aware of. First, an injury or illness needs to be reported to the employer within 30 days from the day the injury occurs or from when a doctor diagnosis the injury or illness. However, simply reporting an injury to the employer does not necessarily mean that the work injury claim has been filed with workers’ compensation.
Officially, state law places a one-year statute of limitations on filing a work injury claim. This means that the claim needs to be filed within one year from the date the injury or illness occurs or from when a doctor makes a diagnosis of the injury or illness. Failing to file a claim within this one-year timeframe will likely result in the workers’ compensation claim being denied.
In the event your work injury was caused by a third-party (somebody other than the employer or a coworker), then you may be able to file a personal injury lawsuit in order to recover compensation for your losses. In this case, the California personal injury statute of limitations of two years will apply. This means that victims have a two-year window with which to file a claim against the alleged negligent party where they will lose the ability to recover compensation for their losses.
There are various reasons why it workers’ compensation claim may be denied in Los Angeles. This includes the following:
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