A workers’ compensation claim can stall completely, for months, not because the injured worker is fine and not because anyone decided otherwise — but because across a stack of medical reports, no doctor ever wrote down how disabled he was.
It happens constantly, and it is almost always fixable....
There is a form that can lift the cap off a New York workers’ compensation case entirely. It is two pages long. Most of the people who qualify for it never file it, and the reason is almost always the same: they did not know the window had opened, and by the...
Most injured workers have no idea this is available to them.
In New York, medical marijuana can be prescribed for a work-related injury and paid for through workers’ compensation. Not as some novel argument somebody has to invent for your case — the Workers’ Compensation Board has a route...
You were hurt at work years ago. The treatment stopped, the checks stopped, the lawyer you had is no longer returning calls, and somewhere in the back of your mind is the settlement you were once offered and turned down. The question is whether there is still money owed to you, or...
A letter arrives from the Workers’ Compensation Board headed Notice of Proposed Conciliation Decision, and the first question most injured workers have is whether something has gone wrong.
Usually it has not. In most cases this letter is a sign that your claim is not being fought over. But...
Your injury is the same. You are going to your appointments. Your doctor is still treating you, still telling you that you cannot go back to work. And then the checks stop.
The natural assumption is that the insurance carrier did something — cut you off, decided you were...
If you were hurt in a car accident on the job, you have two cases running at once: a workers’ compensation claim and a lawsuit against the driver who hit you. Somewhere along the way you hear a number — fifty thousand dollars — and it gets attached to the lien....
If you have two workers’ compensation claims from two separate accidents, and both accidents hurt the same part of you, one question takes over once the case reaches permanency: how will the doctor divide it up? And what happens if the report does not divide it at all?
If you were hurt in an accident that was both a work injury and somebody else’s fault, you have two cases running at once: a workers’ compensation claim, and a personal injury lawsuit against whoever caused it. They move on separate tracks, in front of different decision-makers, on different timetables.
Yes. If you are not happy with the attorney handling your New York workers’ compensation claim, you can change attorneys — and you can do it at almost any point in the case, not just at the beginning.
Most injured workers do not know this. They assume that once...
