"Tightening Up a Few Loopholes"

Every year workers's comp laws change.  Many of the new rules are applied at the start of the year but some new laws take affect un July 1st.  Pollan Dobbs, PLLC is active in monitoring new laws and rules as they come through the Legislature and Courts.  We find the new problems and advantages that workers face each year so they don't have to.  Workers' Comp is designed to protect injured workers that ask for help.  Unfortunately, the system can be unforgiving to workers that rely on employers and insurance companies to help them through the process.  Everyday they count on this arrangement to limit the care they pay for when they can't limit what the law requires.  You can have a smoother experience if you get the facts--and professional help--right from the start.

Call the Workers' Comp HOTLINE: 888.931.COMP (2667)

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Finding a Job After a Workers' Comp Injury

When you're hurt on the job, the most important thing is getting back on your feet.  Fighting through bills and trying to get well is only part of what a worker goes through.  Getting back to work can be just as hard.  Some people can't go back to their old line of work.  Others worry about if they will be fired when they come back to their old job. The Workers' Comp Group can help you get through this tough time.  Did you know:

• There is a right way & a wrong way to do job searches for people on Workers Comp?
• Doing right job searches can increase your settlement amount.
• Whether you quit your job or are fired can change how much your settlement is worth.
• Negotiations over work can be part of your final settlement. 

These things can make a big difference in how your case, your settlement, and your job situation ends up.  You owe it to yourself to get some free advice on how to handle your claim.  Don't let money go down the drain.  


Call the Workers' Comp HOTLINE: 888.931.COMP (2667) 


and see if we can help you.

My Employer Wants Me to Use My Health Insurance for a Workplace Injury. What do I do?

Filing a Workers' Comp Claim on your private insurance can keep you from getting proper healthcare and destroy your protection under the law.  You can undo the trouble, but you need the facts to know how.  Pollan Dobbs, PLLC can show you the way.

Everyday injured workers are told to use their health insurance to cover the care for their workplace injury.  Every time this happens, they're being exploited by their employer.  This problem has become a small epidemic in many states.  Workers' Comp and standard Health Insurance policies may seem the same, but they aren't.  Employers who urge workers to use their own personal health insurance are committing a form of insurance fraud.

This includes:

• Refusing to do an injury report.
• Refusal to submit a truthful report to the Workers' Comp insurance company.  
• Refusal to give the name or adjuster for the Workers' Comp insurance company.
• Forcing injured workers to use their own private health insurance.

The rules for starting a workers' comp claim are fairly simple, but the situation can get quite complicated when Employers act as if the rules don't apply to them.  This sort of behavior is an attempt to hide your injury so that they can avoid responsibility--pure and simple.  Any attempt to do the things listed above is an attempt to hide benefits from you and make whatever steps you take with your legitimate claim just a bit more difficult.

You should have dignity and respect from your workplace and when you're workers' comp claim is legitimate, we make sure you get it.

If anyone has tried to use any of these insurance tricks with you, call us.  We have the tools to get your claim handled properly with no red tape for you.  We work to protect you and your job as our highest priority.


Call us on the Workers' Comp Hotline at 888.931.COMP (2667)

Are There Penalties for Denying Legitimate Workers’ Comp Claims?

• What happens when your employer denies your workers' comp claim?  
• What happens when workers' comp insurance refuses pay on a claim?
• What happens when my employer refuses to file my workers' comp claim?

Each state has a different set of rules for protecting workers from just these situations.  Some rules pay the worker extra money as a penalty for this illegal behavior.  In some instances, workers' can be allowed to sue their insurance company directly when they willfully deny a legitimate claim.

If you've been hurt on the job but you're not being paid for your time off work, your mileage, or you medical bills, you may be entitled to extra benefits.  You do not have to suffer with insurance companies that refuse to do their job when you try to heal and get back to yours.  Call our office.  We can discuss your claim and work to get you back  on track.

Call The Workers' Comp HOTLINE: 888.931.COMP (2667)

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What Does My Impairment Rating Mean?

When you get an impairment rating, things can start moving fast with your claim--even when you don't realize it!  Most injured workers will be given an Impairment Rating over the course of their treatment.  This can be the most important event in a Workers’ Comp claim.  Depending on the facts of your case, an impairment rating can:

• Stop payment of your workers’s comp checks.
• End medical treatment permanently.
• Start a process that can end your ability to get a settlement.
• Give you an opportunity for a lifetime of free medical care related to your injury.

When you are given an impairment rating, you have a lot of options available to you.  However, these options aren’t available forever and many will not be given to you if you don’t know what to ask for.  Don’t let your options slip away permanently.


 At Pollan Dobbs, PLLC we can help walk you through the process.  


Call the Workers’ Comp HOTLINE at: 888.931.COMP (2667)