If you are injured at work, you may seek the services of a Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant (QRC) to help you recover from your injury and get you back into employment. A good QRC can work with your employer and workers’ compensation to get your old job back at...
Parties that settle a lawsuit typically sign a settlement agreement and mutual releases that may contain language specifying that the settlement applies to all “known and unknown claims and causes of action from the beginning of time through the end of the world”. A...
If you have to shout to be heard, the background noise is loud enough to cause hearing impairment. A large truck 5 yards away generates sound at about 90 decibels (dBs) and a jet engine 100 feet away generates sound at 130 dB. Sounds above 80 dB cause air vibrations...
Minnesota has a no-fault system of workers’ compensation, where the insurance company should pay for your claim regardless of fault. However, sometimes insurance companies refuse to pay, and you have to go through the Department of Labor and the Office of...
Imagine an individual is hurt at work and receives a call from someone identifying him/herself as the Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant (QRC) assigned to the individual’s case. The usual immediate reaction is, “What is a QRC?” A QRC is a Minnesota Department of...
Having a back injury not only causes physical pain, but it can also affect your mental health and work performance. Sometimes, people receive back injuries at work. These injuries can be minor, such as strains and sprains, or they can be as severe as spinal cord...
It is quite common for an attorney’s office to receive calls from people looking for help getting a medical bill paid from a worker’s compensation case that was handled several years prior. The first step to take is locating the old settlement papers. Oftentimes the...
Generally, workers’ compensation systems provide certain benefits to employees who sustain work-related injuries and/or diseases. The initial Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Act was passed in 1913, with revisions and amendments adopted, most recently, in 1992 and...
The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry just recently published their annual Worker’s Compensation System Report. Though it was just published in June of this year, collection of these statistics lags somewhat, so the numbers are for 2014. In today’s post I’d...
A common and pressing question involves aggravation injuries with workers compensation in Minnesota and whether said injuries are covered by workers’ compensation. Under the law, for an injury or other medical condition to be compensable, the worker’s regular work...