Maybe that's too long. Your attorney should have provided a crystal-clear explanation as to why the other physicians available were the wrong ones and why waiting 6 months for this one was the best strategy for you.

If it's a denied injury and the 'workmans comp' doctor... View More

NO. You don't 'ADD' one injury to a different injury. YOU CAN ADD body parts for one injury date. EACH DATE OF injury gets a separate state case number and is separated (unless and until there is some motion that a judge must hear them together). You write 'i never put... View More

YOU HAVE a Workers Comp attorney, THAT is who should be (1) answering these issues and (2) rushing to an appeal of the denial of the surgery on the other hand. The Termination will probably stop the workers comp judge from awarding you any Temporary Disability prior to the surgery date. If the... View More

The Statute of limitations requires you provide written notice to the employer within ONE YEAR of the incident resulting in injury. If it's a substance or latent chemical poisoning, it's one year from the date you were notified the exposure was at work. The Workers Comp judge would... View More

Workers Compensation INSURANCE must provide 'reasonable treatment' and -- if appropriate -- temporary and permanent disability payments.

Trouble is, if the 'comp clinic' releases you to modified duty, you won't get work and you won't get Temporary Disability.... View More

Sadly, a finding by a QME that you are Temporarily Totally Disabled for particular dates may not be enough to require the Adjuster to pay TTD. IF the employer is saying the injury is not industrial and the employer wants a trial to try to prove the QME got it wrong, the adjuster won't pay.... View More

The Stipulations With Request For Award agreement does NOT guarantee the insurer will agree to any surgery. Yes, even if the doctor writes he 'desparately' needs it. Your elected officials put in place laws that let a reviewing doctor will never see the injured worker write a report... View More

There are no set Forms for the actions you listed. Most are done by written petition, citing a regulation or labor code or code of civil procedure section upon which the judge may relay to grant the requested relief. And any petition must be verified, another pleading for which there is no... View More

As long as the insurer is providing any form of benefit, the insurer is entitled to discovery about the injured worker. While discovery is 'closed' at the MSC (mostly), discovery is closed on the precise issue(s) to be submitted to the judge for determination, not on the entire claim.... View More

I was going to give you Neil Pedersen's phone number and advise you schedule a meeting TODAY, but then i see he already answered you! THIS IS NOT workers compensation (unless you sprained your spine requesting your check). IT IS a valuable Employment Law violation claim, do not try to... View More

There is absolutely no way to advise you given the lack of facts here. IF you do not trust this lawyer, you should terminate this lawyer and hire a lawyer you do trust, then go through the options other than agreeing to this amount in exchange for surrendering all you possible future rights... View More

If there is no 'employment relationship' between this business with the trapped animal (which would have been dead in 2 weeks with no water...??) and the people signing your paycheck, then your claim would be dismissed at the Workers Compensation Appeals Board. IF you were rendering a... View More

Only witnesses listed on the Statements of Issues and your evidence list can be called to prove your case. if you have a witness that can dispute testimony of the defense witness, you might be permitted to call that person not listed as a 'rebuttal' witness. The judge does not... View More

You have a lawyer, you will be paying that lawyer thou$ands or ten$ of thou$ands, you should be speaking with her. that said, if this doctor is truly an AGREED medical evaluator , then no, all parties should be writing to this doctor as the AME. If the doctor thinks he is a Qualified Medical... View More

It all depends on what this doctor wrote about you. If this doctor wrote you can resume all preinjury duties, you should be back on the job ASAP. If he wrote you have permanent work restrictions, you take his writing on those permanent restrictions to Human Resources and request a permanently... View More

If you really and truly 'just want it to be over' you could write to the judge and withdraw the claim form and application and pay the doctors who treated you, but I suspect that isn't the plan. What will happen next?? If it is a denied claim, you need to get your medical evidence... View More

Yes, i'm quite surprised you were given a date if the Petition For Reconsideration was on file. EAMS should have stopped your DOR from generating a date, but it isn't fool-proof. When a party gets a date and swears under penalty of perjury they provided a copy to the other party and... View More

It might be good, it might be horrible! YOU HAVE A LAWYER, that lawyer is going to take a big chunk of your money... if this isn't a real lawyer and isn't a specialist in Comp, go get a real lawyer.

If you have a psych claim, there is no permanent disability, but the insurer is... View More

Nope, unless you gave written notice to the employer BEFORE YOU LEFT that you had an injury to both wrists from repetitive overuse. The Statute of Limitations requires you provide notice to the employer of an industrial injury within ONE YEAR of the exposure/insult/injury. You indicated this... View More

You should never, ever 'expect' TTD. If you are not receiving it, you want the judge to order TTD to be paid from a certain date in the past and continuing. Without a judge's order, expect absolutely nothing.