Worker’s compensation is notoriously one of the biggest points of contention between employees and employers. They are perfectly happy to pay you your wages, provide your benefits package, and schedule vacation and sick days like usual. However, when it comes to the...
How to Know if Your Worker’s Compensation Offer is Too Low
In an ideal world, the time you spend immediately after being seriously injured in your workplace should be in recovery. Unfortunately, we live in the real world where health care costs money and neither you nor your employer want to be the ones to pay for it. Even if...
Worker’s Compensation: Hardship Hearing Versus Final Hearing
One would like to think that all worker’s compensation claims would be honored without too much fight if employees were honest with their injuries, but the world isn’t quite that easy. While many worker’s compensation claims go smoothly, there are many others that...
Are You Being Harassed for Filing a Worker’s Compensation Claim?
The long history of relations between employers and employees is fraught with strife, disputes, and mistreatment. From the company stores to the labor union fights, you have always been able to count on businesses to care more about their bottom line than the...
When an Employee’s Commute is Covered by Worker’s Compensation in Minnesota
When it comes to coverage under Minnesota worker’s compensation law, many workers know at least one thing – coverage only comes from injuries that occurred while on the job. Unfortunately, while this scope seems broad, it is actually particularly narrow. There are...
Four Workers Compensation Scenarios That Might Call for an Attorney
If you have recently been in an accident or suffered a personal injury at work, your initial reaction might be to minimize the seriousness of your injuries and not rock the boat. The thing is, insurance and workers compensation laws are in place to protect workers and...
