To help your medical providers to properly document the history of your work injury, you should provide them with a one sentence history they can write down, such as: “On February 2, 2010, I hurt my neck, left shoulder, and right knee when I fell down a flight of stairs at work.” Keep it as...
In cases where the person needs in home health care, the carrier can pay a family member to do it in place of a professional caregiver. Often my seriously injured clients cannot take care of basic necessities such as: • bathing • dressing • meal preparation • driving • cleaning Many clients are surprised to...
To anyone bringing in significant income from tips, commissions, or bonuses, KEEP GOOD RECORDS in the event that you are one day injured and have to pursue a workers’ comp case! You see, many times servers and bartenders and other workers who bring in significant income from tips end up experiencing improper wage calculations and...
I always find it interesting when I am reading monthly newsletters or periodicals in the Workers’ Compensation industry of how rampant fraud is and the extent of what some people go through to commit the fraud. One of the things we always go over with our new clients is surveillance. At any given time, the...
The Industrial Commission of Arizona released it’s 2010 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. While no report is “great” until we can read about zero fatalities for the year, it was especially nice to read that workplace fatalities were down in 2010 over 2009. Also identified in the data were Arizona’s three leading causes of work-related...
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