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Well, in one sense, employers can do whatever they want. So yes, you can be fired by filing a workers’ compensation claim but if that is the reason you are discharged it is illegal to do so. A workers’ compensation attorney can help protect injured workers from improper or illegal firings due to filing a claim or during the claim.

Sometimes, an injured worker represented by a workers’ compensation attorney, can decide that they want a different attorney to represent them. This article will tell you when an injured worker should and shouldn’t change attorneys mid-stream in their claim. It will also tell the injured worker how to do so properly. Sometimes injured workers’ hire an attorney, either from the

California’s workers’ compensation laws operate as a compromise between workers and their employers. Regardless of fault, employees are given access to medical care and treatment for injuries that they suffer at work at the employer’s expense. Benefits are also available for temporary total disability and permanent partial disability. In return for those benefits, legislation was enacted that generally prohibits employees

The general rule in the State of California is that an employer’s workers’ compensation insurance covers all employees of the business entity, even if there is only one employee. If an employee is injured during the course and scope of their employment by a foreseeable risk of that employment, he or she becomes eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. In the

If you’re injured in the course and scope of your employment by a foreseeable risk of that employment, California law requires your employer to pay you benefits under its workers’ compensation laws. All California employers are required to either purchase workers’ compensation insurance coverage or obtain authorization to become self insured. Any workers’ compensation insurance policy must be purchased from

Child support serves many purposes for Californians. The best interests of the child or children is the state’s primary concern. In setting or compelling payment of child support, California considers the payment of workers’ compensation benefits to be a substitute for an injured employee’s usual and customary income during the interim when he or she is temporarily and totally disabled.

When a worker is injured on the job in California, the employer’s insurance policy will pay that worker compensation for their injuries. If the worker is partially disabled, then the worker can get benefits for that disability. But what happens when an already disabled worker gets injured and is now totally disabled? Does the most recent employer pay for the