By William Powell of Powell & Denny | Published May 30, 2023 | Posted in Workers Compensation |
No one is listening to me about my Pain Alabama Workers Compensation Lawyers-it feels like no one is listening to me about my pain. Unfortunately, this is a sentiment we hear way to often from our clients who have suffered work injuries in Alabama. They suffered an injury while performing their job duties, and what Read More
Read MoreQuestions to ask TV law firms Alabama Workers Compensation Questions to ask TV law firms. We’ve all seen them, commercials by law firms talking about how large they are and the number of offices they have throughout Alabama, the Southeast and the Nation (one even states they are the largest in the “universe”)-and they all Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Claims Why you should talk with a Lawyer It happens all too often. An injured worker contacts Powell and Denny with questions about their Alabama Workers Compensation claim, and after a few questions, it becomes apparent that the injured worker has been taken to the cleaners by the workers’ compensation insurance adjuster. Read More
Read MoreWorkers Comp Adjuster pressuring you to settle? Here at Powell and Denny, our attorneys (Greg Denny and William Powell) have both handled workers’ compensation cases for over 31 years, and it has not been uncommon for an injured worker to call our office after repeatedly being pressured by the adjuster handling their workers comp claim Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Comp: What is The CAP? Alabama Job Injury Attorney The CAP: Most workers who have suffered a job injury have no idea that the amount of compensation you can receive for an injury is capped by law. In Alabama, once an injured worker has reached maximum medical improvement (mmi), the amount of monetary Read More
Read MoreCan a Lien be placed on my Alabama Workers Comp Claim? In a workers’ compensation claim in Alabama, generally liens against any recovery, judgment or settlement the injured worker receives is not allowed. Numerous times my partner and I have received phone calls from a client asking questions about giving companies a lien against the Read More
Read MoreWhat Benefits are Available to Injured Workers in Alabama? Injured workers in Alabama who suffer a compensable job injury may be entitled to several different types of benefits, but most injured workers really do not know what benefits they might be entitled to receive. This is one reason why if you have suffered a job Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers’ Compensation What is a Case Nurse Manager? Alabama Workers’ Compensation; What is a Case Nurse Manager. If you have suffered a serious job injury, chances are that sometime during the course of your medical treatment, you will be contacted and informed that the workers’ compensation insurance provider has hired a nurse to “assist” Read More
Read MoreWhy can’t I get the tests I need Why can’t I get the tests I need? The other day I was reading an article on how adjusters should treat job injury claims when they first get to their desk. This article centered on explaining why the workers compensation adjuster should NOT authorize tests ordered by Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Death Benefits Alabama Workplace Fatality: The most recent study of fatal work injuries which occurred in Alabama was released by the U.S. Department of Labor, through the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics covering 2020 show that Fatal work injuries totaled 85 in 2020 for Alabama. Nationwide, a total of 4,764 fatal work Read More
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