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Category: Workers’ Compensation

I’m on workers’ comp, can I get disability too?

October 25, 2016
Oxner
So… can you get worker’s compensation weekly checks and also monthly payments from short-term or long-term disability? The answer is… it depends. Note that we are not talking about Social Security Disability. The answer to that is an easy “yes.” You can always draw Social Security Disability (or retirement) checks at the same time as […]
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Workers’ compensation is going to take care of me for life, right?

November 4, 2016
Oxner
Our workers’ compensation laws entitle you to lifetime medical care if needed. However you need to be realistic and understand that as time goes on the workers’ compensation adjuster is going to be less and less enthused about continuing to pay those medical expenses. You should expect that she will often challenge whether or not […]
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Workers’ Compensation laws seem designed to protect employers, not help injured workers.

November 9, 2016
Oxner
Well… we all live with our choices of elected officials. The history of workers’ compensation law shows that the slant of the law has shifted dramatically over time. In the early days, workers’ compensation was a system designed “to provide swift and sure compensation to injured workers.” This was true since the early 1900s. Over […]
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Must a workers’ compensation adjuster pay me mileage reimbursements?

November 22, 2016
Oxner
We’ll give credit where credit is due: some workers’ compensation adjusters tell injured workers about this. But in our experience the majority of them don’t. If you go to see your workers’ compensation doctor, have therapy, or go to any medical appointment that is ten or more miles away from your home (or business if […]
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I’ve got a workers’ compensation claim — do my checks stop at Maximum Medical Improvement?

December 2, 2016
Oxner
If you have a workers’ compensation claim which is open and you are drawing weekly checks — either temporary total disability if you are completely out of work or temporary partial disability if you are able to work but making less money than before — you should continue to draw your weekly checks without any […]
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