St. Louis Lawyer, James M. Hoffmann, specializes in Workers Compensation, Personal Injury, Truck Accidents, and much more!
Insurance companies often find medical experts to contradict your physician. It would be nice to think that an employee can rely on workers’ compensation insurance to pay for their medical expenses in the same way that the employer knows it keeps them immune from lawsuits. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The big business that … Read more
In August of 2009, Missouri legislatures signed into law a bill that protected those injured by dangerous dogs and other household pets that are known to cause injury to humans. Before this, the laws surrounding a dog bite accident favored the animal and its owner by forcing an injured party to prove how a violation … Read more
Employers may be charged interest if they initially deny a claim that is later found to be valid. How do you receive this compensation? There are certain procedures mandated by the United States Department of Labor that must be followed when you are hurt at work. As an employee you have a responsibility to report … Read more
Insurance is big business in the United States, and like most businesses, they abhor losing money. Even though the very nature of their service is to provide monetary compensation for accident victims, they employ adjusters whose goal is to minimize the amount of such payments as much as possible. After an accident there is a … Read more
I represent injured workers in Missouri. At a recent workers compensation hearing in St. Louis, I represented a St. Louis employee who suffered a herniated lumbar disc when he slipped and fell on ice at work. A lumbar fusion surgery was performed in addition to laminectomies at the two lumbar levels above. The employee’s unpaid … Read more
One of the most difficult concepts to understand in workers compensation claims is the patients’ maximum medical improvement or MMI. Reaching MMI does not necessarily mean that the worker has recovered 100% physically, compared to before the accident. It means that medical treatment can longer improve the injury. The degree of disability, if any, cannot … Read more