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The Law Offices of Michael V. Jehdian works on knowing the laws and what it means to you, we work on workers compensation issues, relating to injuries incurred while on the job.
Common work related injuries include injury traumas which occur on construction sites or industrial area. Equally common are repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries, also known as continuous trauma work injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or chronic back pain which may occur in office work places. If you, or someone you know, has had a work-related injury or industrial or workplace accident,
then contact our office.
We have developed the following as general legal help information that may assist in better understanding California Workers Compensation laws and the disability benefits, medical benefits, and vocational rehabilitation benefits to which you may be entitled, as well as awards or settlements for permanent partial disabilities or permanent work restrictions.
Generally speaking, California Workers Compensation is a state-regulated insurance system that pays medical bills and may replace lost income through temporary or permanent disability payments for California employees who are injured and / or disabled at work or who have work-related injuries, industrial diseases or occupational illnesses.
You maybe eligible to recover for the medical treatment of injuries or illness if:
• the injury occurred at work or the disease or illness is job-related; and
• the injured worker is an employee and not an independent contractor who suffered an injury on the job site.
California Workers Compensation insurance will also replace some of the workers lost wages or income if:
• the work injury or industrial illness caused the California injured worker to lose some or all income for more than three days.
Ask us about the specifics of your California Worker's Compensation case. California also has state disability benefits to which you may be entitled. California state disability insurance benefits may be used if there is a delay
in Worker's compensation.
An injured California worker is
usually entitled to all reasonable medical care expenses that result
from a work-related injury. Covered medical care by California
Workers Compensation insurance claims generally include: medical,
surgical and hospital services, dental services, crutches, hearing
aids, chiropractic treatment, physical therapy, nursing care, etc
and prescribed medications. Covered expenses typically continue as
long as medical treatments are reasonable and necessary to cure the
on the job injury. Workers Compensation injury claims and
Workers Compensation injury benefits are subject to California laws
that your employer might not inform you of.
You may be entitled to payment for a partial impairment. Partial impairment is known as a partial incapacity that prevents an employee from competing in the work place as before. Medical evidence will determine the extent of your temporary as well as permanent disability. The value of your claim depends, in large part, on the extent of a permanent disability. Your Nielsen & Associates' disability attorney will be able to answer the hard injury settlement questions for you, and counsel you on:
• stipulation and award;
• compromise and release;
• the difference between temporary disability, permanent disability, partial permanent disability, and 100% disability.
• vocational rehabilitation (voc rehab)
• rights to future medical care, medical treatment and payments
You should also be aware that if you were dependent on your spouse for economic support, you may be entitled to death benefits from California Worker's Compensation. Death benefits may be available for the employee’s children if they were economically dependent on the deceased at the time of death.
Every single California accident injury claim is different and the life circumstance of each workers compensation client is unique. Please call us now for a FREE CONSULTATION and a California Workers Compensation lawyer from our law firm will meticulously review the facts of your California workers comp case with you.
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