Workers’ Compensation and Getting Paid

The most important part of your work injury is getting paid if you cannot work.

The insurance company should be paying you if your injury happened on the job and your doctor has taken you off work.

If the Work Comp insurance company is not paying you, then you should contact an experienced Work Comp attorney right away.

If the Work Comp insurance company stops paying you after they send you to see one of its own doctors, then you contact a lawyer immediately.

The problem is that some injured workers forget to get an off work slip from their doctor. Failure to get the doctor to put your need to be off work in writing can stop your payments.

Once you are sent to the see the insurance company doctor she will write a report that gives the opinion whether the accident and injury are related, the treatment needed and your restrictions. This will determine whether you will get paid and the future course of your treatment.

The only way to get payments back on track is to prepare for trial. This includes having your treating doctor