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Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (40) Can I still bring a claim for workers compensation benefits if I did not immediately file an Injury Report?
Can I still bring a claim for workers compensation benefits if I did not immediately file an injury report? First off, it is not an accident report that is to be filed, it is an INJURY report. This is not just a matter of semantics. Per Alabama law, employers are to file an injury report Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (39) Can I still bring a workers compensation claim if I tested positive for drugs?
Can I still bring a workers compensation claim if I tested positive for drugs? Taking illegal drugs, or misusing prescription drugs, is against the law–we all know this. If you suffered a job injury because you were under the effects of an illegal drug, or because you were abusing a legally prescribed drug or alcohol, Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (38) Do I have to see the IME Doctor?
Do I have to see the IME doctor? If you have suffered a serious injury and are receiving costly treatment from your treating physician, chances are that at some point you will be contacted by workers comp and told that you have to see another doctor (called an independent medical examination or IME). It is Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (37) Do I have to see the Company Doctor?
Do I have to see the company doctor? While you are free to see whomever you wish to see, you should realize that your personnel health insurance will not pay for treatment related to a work injury. This means that any treatment you receive by seeing who you want to see-instead of who comp tells Read More
Read MoreTax Cuts Lead to Attack on Disability Beneficiaries
Those tax cuts from a few years ago are coming home to roost. The National Deficit is expected to balloon by Trillions because of it-so the Administration is looking for ways to save money and the least of those among us is who they are looking at. It has already become much harder for someone Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (36) What should I do if My Boss told me to use my own insurance?
What should I do if my boss told me to use my own insurance? We have heard this a lot through the years-I heard it again just last week. A worker suffers a job injury and informs their boss of this fact as they are supposed to do; then, the injured workers’ boss asks them Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (35) Can I use my own insurance to receive medical treatment?
Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (35) Can I use my own insurance to receive medical treatment? Generally, NO. Alabama law dictates that your employer has to report a job injury. This is not open for interpretation; at this point your claim should be turned over to your employers’ workers’ compensation insurance carrier. In order to use Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (34) Am I entitled to Money for Pain and Suffering?
Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (34) Am I entitled to Money for Pain and Suffering? No. Workers who have experienced job injuries are entitled to those benefits set forth in Alabama’s Workers Compensation Statue and only those benefits prescribed by the Legislature; pain and suffering is not one such benefit. In Alabama, if a worker has Read More
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