Tag Archives: West Palm Beach Workers Compensation Attorney
Possible PTSD Coverage For First Responders
Police officers, corrections officers, and firefighters have some of the most dangerous occupations in Florida and across the U.S. Fla. Chapter 112 offers first responders and law enforcement agents additional workers’ compensation benefits through the heart and lung statute in which these particular workers are relieved of proving that certain illnesses occurred in the… Read More »
Florida Workers’ Compensation Reform an Ongoing Threat to Workers
Over the last 30 years, the Florida Legislature has reduced benefits payable to an injured worker. Rising costs of medical care result in higher costs for workers’ compensation insurers and higher premiums for employers. Workers’ compensation “reform” usually results in cutting benefits to injured workers while keeping insurers profitable. Workers’ Compensation Research Institute Rings… Read More »
Mold Exposure for Workers’ Compensation and Civil Cases
Mold exposure is a common cause of workplace-related illness. Additionally, toxic mold exposure can occur in the home. If you are renting, your landlord has a responsibility to either prevent mold from occurring or taking action to get rid of the mold. You may file a personal injury lawsuit against your landlord for damages… 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 »
Apportionment and Permanent Total Disability
Permanent total disability is reserved only for workers who have suffered a catastrophic injuries or health complications that render them incapable of performing work in the future. Such conditions must meet the standards set in Florida statute 440.15, which states that the employee must be incapable of performing a full range of sedentary employment… Read More »
Can Heart Disease be Covered by Workers’ Compensation for Non-First Responders?
Florida’s Heart/Lung bill offers workers’ compensation benefits to first responders when they get tuberculosis, heart disease, and hypertension. It is assumed that their line of duty was the main contributing factor for their illness, and their employer must prove otherwise if they wish not to provide workers’ compensation benefits. However, can non-first responders file… Read More »
Difficulty Proving Exposure to Toxic Substances in the Workplace
Many people have serious difficulties procuring workers’ compensation benefits even for injuries that obviously happened on the job. Such scenarios include the crushed hand of a factory employee who works with dangerous machinery, or the broken back caused by a worker who fell down a flight of stairs on the job. These types of… Read More »
Florida Heart and Lung Bill 112.18
Florida statute 112.18, commonly referred to as Florida’s Heart and Lung bill, offers firefighters, law enforcement agents, and Florida correctional officers workers’ compensation benefits for health complications related to heart and lung issues. However, in order to qualify for these benefits, state employees must have passed a physical examination, upon being hired, clearing them… 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 »
