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Category Archives: Workers Compensation

Workers’ Compensation in Arizona: Your Guide to Light Duty Assignments

Unfortunately, workplace injuries remain a serious public safety issue in our region. According to data from the Arizona Department of Health Services, approximately 63,500 workers are hurt on the job in the state each year. Workers’ comp insurance coverage provides much needed financial and legal protection. You can take time off to get medical care …

Report: Amazon Warehouse Workers Injured at Twice the Rate of the Industry Average

According to a report from CNBC, a study conducted by the labor advocacy group Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) alleges that Amazon warehouse workers are twice as likely to be hurt on the job as warehouse workers at other companies. The study purports that disproportionate share of Amazon’s warehouse worker injuries are suffered by new employees. …

Workers comp private investigator tactics

When you get involved in a workplace injury, your insurance company may decide to hire a private investigator to watch you or “conduct surveillance.” The work of these private investigators is to determine if the claimed work-related injury is either faked, exaggerated, or even falsely absenting themselves from work. Although this might seem as an …

Hurt on the job lawyer

On-the-job injuries often pose hazardous effects to workers at airports, grocery stores, construction sites, restaurants, or even hospitals. Such work injuries may cause the affected employee to be temporarily or permanently unable to resume their job duties.  Plus, they end up having to pay substantial medical bills that threaten to leave them bankrupt. However, there …

Workers comp delay tactics

While there are some insurance companies that respond quickly to workers’ compensation claims and begin settling them immediately, other cheeky insurers try employing various tactics to delay the processing of the worker’s comp claim. Due to this late payment of compensation claims, the injured workers end up struggling with receiving the necessary medical treatment or …

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