Arizona's Work Injury Firm
As expected, the Arizona House Banking and Industry Committee of the legislature voted 5-1 along party lines (with Rep Miranda out of the room) to move House Bill 2617 forward. The bill would allow carriers and injured workers to enter into “full and final” settlements of workers compensation claims. As I detailed in an earlier...
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So if I’m walking in my house and my industrially related knee gives way, and I fall and hurt my shoulder, is the shoulder covered? What if I’m up on a ladder and my industrially injured elbow locks up and I fall and hurt my back – is the back covered? Answer is almost always: yes! ...
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It’s 2:45 a.m. the morning after I had knee surgery to repair a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL), medial meniscus and lateral meniscus. I had the surgery performed by Robert Mileski, M.D. I’ve been sending many of my clients to Dr. Mileski over the years and his patients always seem to get very good results. ...
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I shouldn’t tell this secret, because telephonic pre-hearing conferences are great for business. Many injured workers who have decided to represent themselves in their Industrial Commision hearings, get the notice for the “telephonic pre-hearing conference” and freak out and break down and call a lawyer. Pre-hearing conferences are actually very brief informal discussions between the...
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Many of our clients come to us with nurse case managers assigned to their cases by the insurance carrier. While many of these are nice people, and while they may act like they are your best friend and just there to help you, they are not. They are hired by the insurance carrier to minimize...
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