Collecting Unemployment If You’re Fired
If you are fired, your employer has the burden to show that you were fired for misconduct connected to your work. If they are alleging attendance or performance problems on your part, they should...
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What Young Workers Need To Know About Their Social Security Benefits
Today’s post comes to us from our colleague Ryan Benharris of Massachusetts. According to a recent article published in The Palm Beach Post, approximately one in four workers under the age of thirty...
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“I’m In It for the Money!”
Surprisingly, many employers and insurance companies actually believe workers hurt themselves on purpose or at the very least put themselves in positions where they think an injury is likely. We hear...
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How Apportionment Relates to a New Workers’ Compensation Claim
Can I get workers’ compensation benefits for an injury even though I had a past workers’ compensation claim? The simple answer is yes. In nearly all instances, you would be entitled to full benefits...
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Is Your Workers’ Compensation Check Late?
My work comp check was late or hasn’t come yet. Now what? If you are entitled to workers’ compensation checks, and the insurance company has not paid them on time, you might be entitled to a penalty...
View ArticleDo I Qualify For Social Security Disability Benefits?
In order to qualify for Social Security disability benefits, you have to prove that you have one or more physical and/or mental impairments that are severe and that prevent you from engaging in...
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Average Weekly Wage Decides Workers’ Comp Benefits
Posted in workers comp basicsworkers comp qandaworkers compensation Workers’ Compensation benefits are partially determined by your average weekly wage. One of the factors that determines how much you...
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Workers’ Comp System Not Exclusive for Neb. Case
Posted in CourtDeathWork InjuryWorkers' Compensation Lind v. Benes Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. Firm founder Rod Rehm won a major victory for workplace safety in Nebraska yesterday. The...
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Six Tips for Safe and Fair Holiday Employment
This time of year, many people get holiday jobs to earn extra money. That means some people will get injured at work and run into other difficulties working holiday jobs. Here are six tips on how to...
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Contact a Workers’ Compensation Lawyer, Even if Your Medical Bills Are Being...
Nebraska is a state that has a “prompt payment rule” for medical expenses in workers’ compensation cases. This means that so long as your employer has sufficient knowledge that your medical care is...
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How Do Iowa Workers’ Compensation Permanent Benefits Work?
Iowa’s workers’ compensation laws classifies permanent injuries to the neck, back, shoulders or hips are as unscheduled, or body as a whole, disabilities. Most other injuries are treated as scheduled...
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What is Workers’ Compensation Law in Nebraska?
Before workers’ compensation was an option in Nebraska, injured workers could only sue their employers under tort law for damages. While providing complete compensation – i.e., damages such as those...
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Is Worker’s Comp Profitable Because Disabled Workers Don’t Get Benefits?
My friend Tom Domer of The Domer Law Firm in Milwaukee, who happens to be one of the most knowledgeable workers’ compensation lawyers I know, wrote a great blog post explaining why workers’...
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Workers’ Compensation May Cover Weight Loss Treatment, Surgery
Gastric bypass is one type of weight loss surgery Obesity is a disease that affects Americans in many ways. Workers’ compensation is affected by obesity as well. A work injury or disease, coupled with...
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When Did My Workers’ Compensation ‘Accident’ Occur?
Nebraska workers’ compensation law states that an accident is “an unexpected or unforeseen injury happening suddenly and violently, with or without human fault, and producing at the time objective...
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Why Your Vote Matters to Workers
I frequently write about the intersection of workers’ compensation benefits for workers and politics. The bottom line on my comments is that workers, and citizens who care about workers, need to vote...
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Study: Work Comp Benefits Up; Employer Costs at Historic Low
Respected colleague Thomas Domer of the Domer Law Firm in Milwaukee, recently wrote a post about a study released by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). The study, titled Workers’...
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State Laws Determine Worker’s Rights: Work Comp Benefits, Process Vary by State
Many workers are hired in one state but are required to attend orientation or participate in a hiring process in another state because their potential employer is principally located and doing...
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Safety, Workers’ Compensation Rights Are Concern in Many States
Here is another sad round in the endless battle to preserve human rights against bigger profits. On May 5, the Illinois House of Representatives met as the “committee as a whole” and heard testimony...
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Is a Pulmonary Embolism Compensable under Workers’ Compensation?
The short answer is yes, but it could be difficult to prove if it is not directly related to another workers’ compensation injury. In Nebraska, proving a pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis...
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