Workers' Compensation
- If you are injured at work, notify your supervisor as soon as possible. To avoid any possible dispute about when you notified your employer, try to put your report in writing, by e-mail or fax and keep a copy to prove when it was submitted.
- Generally, your employer has the right to tell you which doctor they want you to see for a work injury for the first 90 days after your accident. After the 90 day period, you are free to see a doctor you choose.
- If you are unable to work due to a work injury, you may be entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits for your related medical bills and for two-thirds of your normal wages.
- It is against the law for your employer to fire, or otherwise punish you for making a workers’ compensation claim.
- Unlike some other type of accident cases, a worker cannot obtain additional money for pain and suffering in a workers’ compensation case. But in exchange, the injured worker need not prove that his or her employer was in any way negligent in causing the accident. Accordingly, if you are engaged in your employment and are injured, even if you were the cause of your injury, you should be able to obtain workers’ compensation benefits.
