Year: 2022

The doctor overseeing your medical care decides what medication you take and what procedures you undergo. They can also recommend accommodations to help you return to work. Their opinion is crucial during your treatment and recovery. When you are a patient seeing your...

If you need to take time off after a work-related injury, workers’ compensation helps you continue to receive some of your lost wages. However, unless you have a permanent disability that will keep you from working again, your employer and your workers' comp insurer...

Amputations are among the most traumatic workplace injuries that can occur. An amputation will, quite naturally, have a massive effect on your life, physically, psychologically and financially. Those three things are all interconnected. For example, reduced mobility...

Your lunch break at work should be a time for you to have something to eat and rest before the afternoon shift begins. The last thing you expect is to find yourself in an accident but it does happen.  What happens if you’re injured at work but you’ve clocked out to...

Who says office work isn’t hazardous? Even though you aren’t working on a factory line, your arms and wrists and hands get quite a workout on the keyboard of your computer every day. Lately, you’ve noticed an unusual pain when you put your elbows on your desk, and...

Working in a hospital often means making personal sacrifices for the good of your community and other individuals. You work exhaustingly long shifts so that there are enough people on hand in the event of an emergency. You may even be on call sometimes on your days...

As a worker in California, you might know your basic rights, such as receiving workers’ compensation benefits if you are injured on the job. However, do you know what happens if your employer doesn’t have this coverage?  Unfortunately, this is a scenario that is too...

If you are injured at work, you likely want to file a claim through your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance. While designed to help workers avoid personal financial consequences for workplace injuries, it is not as guaranteed as you might think. Each year...

Hundreds of thousands of workers are injured in the line of duty every year. While a good number of these cases are deserving of workers' compensation benefits, not all affected workers get to enjoy them. Victims are often unaware of what they need to do to claim...

Working outdoors in the heat can result in several potentially dangerous health conditions, including heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat rash and heat cramps. Each of these conditions has unique symptoms; however, without treatment, they can result in serious...