Tag Archives: Injured on the Job
Do I Have to Comply With a Drug Test to Receive Benefits?
Workers’ compensation can be a tricky business. There are many aspects of the accident that must be proven by you and your attorney. You must show that the injury or illness happened at work or was a result of the work that you do, you must prove the extent and seriousness of the injury… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation and a Third-Party Lawsuit
It is a common belief that financial responsibility of all on-the-job accidents falls onto the shoulders of your employer, and/or, more accurately, its insurance carrier. While workers’ compensation takes the place of suing your employer in most cases for causing personal injuries, you may still sue a third party who may have been responsible… Read More »
Election of Remedies for Workplace Accidents
When an employee is injured on the job or becomes ill from the work he or she performs, the vast majority of the time he or she will not have the option of pursuing a personal injury lawsuit against his or her employer. That is, assuming that he or she worked for an employer… Read More »
Failed Attempt to Return to Work
After a serious injury, before returning to work it is best to take the time you need to heal physically, as well as ensure that you recover emotionally and psychologically. All too often, injured workers rush back to the job before they are ready. The drive to do so is hard to resist: you… Read More »
Florida Board Certified Workers’ Compensation Attorney Michael J Celeste Jr.
When an injury temporarily or permanently takes away your ability to provide for you family, anxiety, depression, and fear of the future take over. Because of the difficult situation you, as an injured worker, have been put in, it only makes sense to seek out the most experienced, qualified workers’ compensation attorney available. There… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation Apportionment
Many employees who get injured on the job wonder if they will qualify for benefits, or if they will be forced to pay the medical bills and other expenses on their own. This worry is compounded when the accident or overuse injury happens to an area that has been injured in the past. An… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation Fraud
When employees get hurt on the job, it does not matter if they were at fault or it was their employer’s negligence that caused the accident; workers’ compensation works as a no-fault system. However, that does not stop employers/carriers from denying benefits to their employees for a variety of reasons such as the employee… Read More »
