Workers Compensation Attorney

After  sustaining an injury at work , you will be faced with serious problems. One of them will be the inability to work. Without income, it will be hard to take care of your family and pay your mortgage. So, what do you do in such situation? There is only one solution – file a workers’ compensation claim. Did you know that only one in four injured individuals files for workers compensation? The rest are afraid of losing their jobs and choose not to do anything about it. When filing for workers’ compensation, there are a few things you should be aware of. One of them is the time limit that you have to file it. You are on the clock, and we advise you to hurry up. Filing Workers’ Compensation Claim In most states (including California), you have up to one year from the moment of the injury to file a workers’ compensation claim. However, there is a strict rule in California which says that you only have 30 days to give your employer a written notice of the in...

Every employer in the state of California is required to carry workers’ compensation insurance by law. What this means is that regardless of how many employees you have, even if you have one, you need to cover the work comp insurance. In a situation where you are uninsured and your employee gets injured on the job, you will be in a lot more trouble and have to pay a lot more than the value of workers’ compensation insurance. Fact  – without the insurance, an employer may face criminal charges and even spend a year in jail. Here is what an employer is faced with, and what he/she can do if uninsured and faced with a claim. Expensive Litigation If you fail as an employer to carry the workers’ compensation insurance, you will face potential: Criminal prosecutions Personal fines (first fine is up to $10,000, second can go up to $50,000) Under California Labor Code, if the workers’ compensation appeals board finds out that you are illegally uninsured, you will f...