A workers compensation lawyer can benefit you

Each state has its own workers' compensation laws to handle claims from employees who are injured on the job. These laws are strict liability - fault and negligence by the employer need not be established in order to collect benefits. However, the injury or illness has to be incurred in the course of employment in order for  a workers' compensation lawyer to provide benefits to the injured worker. Since workers' rights impose strict liability on employers, it is the exclusive remedy for an employee's injuries or illnesses arising out of the course of employment.

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Workers compensation benefits can provide needed support and assistance for a worker in Texas who has become sick or injured as a result of their work conditions.

However, because workers compensation claims are very different from other types of claims involving injury and/or illness, the use of a workers compensation lawyer is always advised when seeking workers compensation benefits in Texas.

Workers' Compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with fixed monetary awards, eliminating the need for litigation. But sometimes companies and private employers subvert these laws and fail to pay sufficient money to those injured or disabled on the job.

A total of 4.7 million workers reported nonfatal injuries and illnesses in private industry workplaces during 2002, resulting in a rate of 5.3 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, according to a survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.

Common topics that a Workers Compensation Lawyer can help you with include:

• Personal Injury
• Disability Discrimination
• Wrongful Death
• Truck Accidents
• Construction Accidents
• Employment Discrimination

What is commutation?

It is an order by a Workers' Compensation Administrative Law Judge for a lump sum payment of part or your entire permanent disability award. Payment can be made to either the injured worker or the injured worker's attorney. This order can only be requested after you have either settled your case with a Stipulation with Request for Award or received a Findings and Award.

A Workers Compensation Lawyer can get you the money needed to pay for the medical treatment of injuries or illness if:

• The injury occurred at work or the disease or illness is job-related; and
• The injured worker is an employee and not an independent contractor who suffered an injury on the job site.

Workers may be entitled to payment for a partial impairment. Partial impairment is known as a partial incapacity that prevents an employee from competing in the work place as before. Medical evidence will determine the extent of your temporary as well as permanent disability. The value of your claim depends, in large part, on the extent of a permanent disability. Your Jim S. Adler & Associates workers compensation lawyer will be able to answer the hard injury settlement questions for you, and counsel you on:

• Stipulation and award;
• Compromise and release;
• The difference between temporary disability, permanent disability, partial permanent disability, and 100% disability.
• Vocational rehabilitation (voc rehab)
• Rights to future medical care, medical treatment and payments

Workers should also be aware that if you were dependent on your spouse for economic support, you might be entitled to death benefits and should contact a Workers Compensation Lawyer. Death benefits may be available for the employee's children if they were economically dependent on the deceased at the time of death.

After injury or illness occurs, it is the employee's responsibility to complete a claim form and to submit it to either the employer or the state workers' compensation agency/board. Normally, an employer will have the claim forms available. The employer will submit the claim to the insurance company. The employer is given an opportunity to respond to the claim. If he does not contest the claim, the insurance company will make payment of medical bills and wages. A hearing can be scheduled if the employer contests the claim to determine whether, or how much, workers compensation is owed to the employee.

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Additionally, Jim S. Adler & Associates has law offices located at City Place Building, 2711 North Haskell Ave., Suite 2100 LB40, Dallas, Texas 75204-2887;  San Pedro Plaza, 7330 San Pedro Ave., Suite 700, San Antonio, Texas 78216-6237; and Bank of America, 12605 East Freeway, Suite 400, Houston, Texas 77015-5619 (serving Channelview, Texas).