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What is the #1 thing you should do when you are injured? REPORT YOUR CLAIM!! I cannot tell you how many calls we get on a daily basis from potential new clients who say that they did not report their claim. Sometimes they didn’t report it for several days and sometimes they even go a...
Posted by Snow Carpio and Weekley | Compensability Filing a New Claim Free Consultation How to LOSE your case Workers' Comp Tip of the Day
Something we’ve run into recently on a couple of cases that bears mentioning here is the duty that a worker injured on the job in Arizona has to notify the employer’s insurance carrier of a pending surgery at least 10 days before it takes place. This general rule is true for any medical treatment for...
Posted by Snow Carpio and Weekley | How to LOSE your case Medical Care Reopening a Closed Case Workers Compensation
Many clients who are litigating their work injury claims in Arizona call us after they receive a large packet of information from the attorney representing the insurance carrier. One of the most intimidating contents of this packet are the “interrogatories”, which are a series of (usually 25) written questions about the injury, witnesses, medical treatment...
Posted by Snow Carpio and Weekley | Do I need an Attorney? Evidence Hearings How to LOSE your case Workers Compensation
Free legal advice for the day: if you just told the insurance carrier’s doctor that your low back pain keeps you from doing just about everything and that you rarely leave your bed, don’t go home and teach a karate class in your front yard. Or lift 100 pound pieces of flagstone. Or go to...
Posted by Snow Carpio and Weekley | Hearings How to LOSE your case
My piece of free legal advice today is: don’t be a drama queen at your Industrial Commission hearing, or ever in your workers compensation claim. If your injury is legitimate, the doctors and judges will be able to tell by looking at the tests and examinations that have been done. Don’t feel like you have to...
Posted by Snow Carpio and Weekley | How to LOSE your case
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