Missouri Workers Compensation and Personal Injury Topics are discussed by James M. Hoffmann.
At some point in the workers’ compensation process, your employer may ask you to take a functional capacity evaluation (FCE). A function capacity evaluation will assess your physical capabilities post-injury. If you are well enough, you may be able to come back to work. Even if you are not, the result can help you and … Read more
Insurance adjusters could use that information in order to form a basis to deny your claim. The typical workers’ compensation case is simple. An employee gets injured, they make a claim, and they receive compensation based on the extent of their injuries. One of the situations where this process is more complicated, and will require … Read more
A work-related injury can be so severe that an entire person’s life changes. Some workplace injuries do not have much of an effect on your daily life. Instead, they inhibit your ability to work for some amount of time, but your physical capabilities are not entirely comprised. Other times, the severity of damages are so … Read more
Workers’ compensation is a government-sanctioned system, and as a result, has strict rules. When you are injured in a work-related accident, you need to do everything you can to get better. Sometimes, this leads to people exploring alternative forms of medicine. Doing so is not a straightforward process though, as some treatment options are covered, … Read more
Most workers believe that once they begin receiving workers comp benefits they are secure. Unfortunately, this is not always true. When workers suffer an injury on the job, they often receive workers’ compensation benefits as a result. Unfortunately, their payments are sometimes not permanent. Instead, those benefits could fall or stop altogether. Here are 5 … Read more
If the insurance company is having an investigator contact you, there is a good chance they have an issue with your claim. Many people have a general knowledge of what happens in workers’ compensation cases. An employee sustains an injury, they report it, they often choose to speak with a workers compensation attorney, and both … Read more