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Alabama Job Injury Lawyers   Tell the Truth on your Job Application     

Alabama Job Injury Lawyers        Tell the Truth on your Job Application      Tell the Truth on your Job Application: In the South, we are taught to tell the truth.  We all know that lying only leads to more headaches down the road.  This is especially true when you are completing a Read More

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Alabama Work Injury Lawyers   Rotator Cuff Tear

Alabama Work Injury Lawyers                  Rotator Cuff Tear One of the most common work injuries our office deals with on behalf of our clients are shoulder injuries, specifically rotator cuff tears.  Rotator cuff injuries are common with people whose jobs involve a lot of repetitive motion with their shoulder (such as a production job or Read More

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Huntsville Workers Compensation Lawyers

Huntsville Workers Compensation Lawyers Huntsville Workers Compensation Lawyers: Claim denied due to a pre-existing condition. What are My Rights? If you work in Alabama and you have sustained a workers compensation injury, you may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits; however one of the main reasons workers’ compensation insurance carriers deny benefits is because they Read More

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Told it was a coincidence

Told it was a coincidence Alabama Job Injury Attorneys: Told it was a coincidence:  Recently I had a telephone conversation with an injured worker who, at the direction of the workers compensation adjuster, had seen Dr. Jeffrey Todd Smith for a back injury they suffered at work.  He had suffered his back injury while lifting Read More

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Alabama Worker Compensation Questions: (6) Preexisting condition

Alabama Worker Compensation Questions: (6) I was told that I was not entitled to workers comp benefits because of a preexisting condition: I could not count the number of times I have had a client come in who was injured at work, but was informed that workers’ comp was refusing to accept liability because 20 Read More

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Construction workers face higher risk of severe spinal injuries

“This study demonstrates that the construction industry is still experiencing a high burden of work-related spinal trauma, particularly related to falls, despite safety measures being in place.” The most common back injury we see with our clients are herniated discs. A herniated disc (also called a herniated disk, a herniated nucleus pulposus, disc protrusion, disc extrusion, Read More

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Lawsuit accuses doctor of bias against injured workers

I wish the facts as set forth in this piece were rare and uncommon, but I’d be lying if I said that there weren’t certain physicians in Alabama whom the workers’ compensation insurance carrier sends injured workers to see because they KNOW what the doctor will do and say.  Physical Therapy will be ordered, the injured worker Read More

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Workers’ Comp denied my Claim. What do I do?

  If your claim for workers’ compensation benefits was denied, don’t give up. One of the reason for the denial of a legitimate workers’ compensation claim I hear is because the workers’ compensation adjuster says the job accident was not the cause for the injury; rather, it was caused by an old injury. As we Read More

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