Injured At Work Laws and Tips!

Whether you’re working with heavy machinery or simply stocking the shelves, workplace accidents can happen regardless of the situation. Or maybe you aren’t even working, maybe you’re on a break and just so happen to slip and hurt your back – after all, accidents come whenever they want and however they want. Well, whatever the case may be, the main and almost inevitable consequences of workplace accidents are lost wages and medical bills. Dreadful, right? Luckily, you don’t have to worry about it as the Workers’ Compensation Act mandates upon the employer the civic duty to cover the lost wages and medicinal cost of injured laborers. This protection is, however, not absolute as the employers are always, ever so vigilantly, looking for loopholes and exploitations that’ll let them opt out of this mandate. And don’t think that an organization as goliath as yours won’t care much about a single worker because they certainly do. So, what are you supposed to do? Even when protected, you ar...

You’ve probably come across plenty of articles on how to win a CRPS case, but I bet you haven’t come across a single one that tells you how to lose. Don’t worry, I’m not crazy or anything like that – a bit eccentric sure, but not crazy. The problem with ‘how to win your case arguments is that there’s no surefire way to determine whether you’ll win a case or not. Many a time, it happens that a case, certain to win, loses simply because juries are unpredictable . However, just because there’s no surefire way to win a case doesn’t mean there isn’t one to lose it either. Because believe me, in my years as a CRPS lawyer in Philadelphia , I’ve witnessed countless situations where the claimants’ behavior was responsible for losing the case. That’s why, in this article, instead of telling you how to win your case, I’ll be relaying to you some common acts or behaviors that can quite certainly jeopardize your case. Be Your Advocate From time to time, it happens that lawyers also find thems...