When it comes to worker’s compensation, most people think it is only for factory or construction workers that suffer debilitating injuries due to physical labor or dangerous machinery, but while those may be what we think of when we think of dangerous jobs, even...
Year: 2018
For Those Left Behind: Minnesota Worker’s Compensation Death Benefits
It is something we don’t want to think about happening, but it can be an unfortunate reality for many. If your spouse was part of an accident at work that resulted in their death, it can be devastation incarnate. A piece of your family is gone, and yet you also have...
Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Available For Electrocution Injuries At Work
Whether you are an electrician, power line worker, or a factory worker, anyone who works around machines powered by electricity runs the risk of being electrocuted. It only takes one small mistake on the part of the employer or the manufacturer of the equipment to...
What To Do If You Think You Are Developing a Repetitive Stress Injury
As your typical work injuries go, repetitive stress injuries are easily the most common, but it is also the most difficult to get worker’s compensation for. Typically, most worker’s compensation claims for repetitive stress injuries are rejected because the worker...
Minnesota Work Comp – When the Insurance Company Won’t Settle
Typically, when you file for worker’s compensation, the claims adjusters want to handle things simply without an unnecessary amount of time or energy put in. This is something that is both good for the injured party and the insurance company. However, sometimes you...
Are Office Workers Entitled to Worker’s Compensation?
When most people think of worker’s compensation, they think of a construction worker hurt in an accident or a factory worker hurt by some piece of complicated machinery. Most people don’t think of some office worker that spends most of their time in a cubicle. This is...
Noninvasive Procedures Often Used To Treat Workers’ Back Injuries
Back pain, particularly lower back pain, is a pervasive problem in the United States. According to the American Chiropractic Association, about 31 million Americans, or almost 10 percent of the population, suffer from lower back pain at any one time. It is second only...
Workplace Assault
Minnesota Workplace Attack Lawyer The recently received a call from a factory worker who was assaulted by a co-employee. The injured worker had complained to her boss that the co-worker who was to take over her machine on the next shift...
They Denied My Claim! Now What?
It is a sad truth that sometimes deserving compensation claims are denied. The insurance company sends you a Notice of Insurer’s Primary Liability Determination form saying that they won’t cover you, and you are left with your bills and no help. Fortunately, there are...
All You Ever Wanted to Know about Neck Injuries but Were Afraid to Ask
When people think of neck pain, they see in their mind’s eye a picture of Julia Roberts in the courtroom scene when she portrayed Erin Brockovich. Not all neck problems, however, are caused by car crashes, nor are they all faked as they were in the film. In fact,...