Employers without Workers' Comp Coverage can Face Serious Penalties.

Employers can pay a high price for ignoring workers' compensation rules.

Workers' Compensation coverage, or some similar policy for injured workers, is required for nearly every job in the United States.  Some employers try to avoid their legal obligations by avoiding their Workers' Compensation coverage completely. Many employers don't realize this opens their business to large unnecessary liability, fines and even jail.

Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Another uninsured employer has pled guilty to a Class 4 felony for refusing to obtain workers' compensation insurance. John Linek, individually and as President of SMS Logistics of Chicago, has been ordered to pay a $10,000 penalty for refusing to obtain workers compensation insurance. The IWCC's Insurance Compliance Unit had been requesting compliance with the Act from this trucking firm since 2010.

Major Changes in the Workers' Compensation Laws of Mississippi

The Chairman of the Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission has released a video discussing the radical changes in the laws of the state.  These new rules will affect nearly every worker, particularly workers who might be wrongfully denied a workers' comp claim.

  

Pollan Dobbs, PLLC can walk your case through every aspect of the new rules and work to make sure you're not shut out of the system.  Give us a call on the hotline for the assistance you need.  888.931.COMP (2667)

DRASTIC NEW Change to MS Workers Comp Laws!

Starting July 1st, 2012 Mississippi workers face the brunt of harsh new Workers' Compensation laws.  The Mississippi Legislature has created a host of new laws that make many aspects of workers comp more difficult for workers.  More importantly, the legislature has simplified the process for employers and insurance companies to deny and even cheat workers out of their lawful benefits.

Now more than ever workers' need help from the very start of their workplace injury.  There are new rules for drug testing, new restrictions on your choice of doctor, new methods for denying benefits, and even new rules that can deny you access to plead your case in court if things go bad.  We may be facing the worst new set of Workers' Comp laws since the 1940s but you don't have to face them alone.  Pollan Dobbs, PLLC can help you navigate the new rules.  

Our firm can offer workers legal assistance and protection from the very start of your claim all the way through your final settlement.  Call now and get the scoop on how the new rules affect your claim or see how you can get full legal protection now without paying a cent in out of pocket legal fees.

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

Is Your Workers' Comp Check LATE? Not Getting it at All?

You've always been asked to play by the rules and you're due the same respect.

The law requires injured workers to be paid when they can't work because of an on-the-job injury.  This isn't sick leave, it's not personal time, and this isn't vacation pay--it's comp pay.  Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

If you've been taken off work due to your injury but haven't received a "comp check", then contact us immediately.  Your insurance company may be in violation of state law and subject to serious penalties.

You don't have to be bullied and you don't have to wait for other people to finally follow the rules.  Pollan Dobbs, PLLC can help get your benefits to you on time.  Give us a call today and get peace of mind:

888.931.COMP (2667)