Monthly Archives: December 2024
Can You Claim PTSD from a Car Accident?
In most cases, yes. Contrary to popular myth, car crashes, especially if they cause other catastrophic injuries, often cause PTSD as well. A sudden and unexpected car crash has roughly the same effect on the brain as a sudden and unexpected firefight in a foreign field. This effect is a physical brain injury. Extreme… Read More »
What Are My Rights Under Workers’ Compensation in Florida?
Injured workers have three basic rights under Florida’s workers’ compensation law. All these rights are designed to get injured workers back on the job as fast as possible. In the end, that’s what everyone wants. Workers’ compensation also fairly compensates job injury victims. This compensation is part of the early 1900s Grand Bargain between… Read More »
Medical Bills, Medical Debt, and Workers’ Compensation
Despite attempts to address the issue, high medical bills are still the leading cause of consumer bankruptcy filings in the United States. Most of these bankruptcies involve long-term disease care or serious trauma injury care. The average hospital stay costs $4,000 per day. At that rate, even if a health insurance company pays most… Read More »
Five Quick FAQs About Workers’ Compensation in Florida
“Do I qualify for benefits?” is the most common workers’ compensation FAQ. Yes, you qualify for benefits, if a work-related illness or injury caused economic loss, usually medical bills and/or lost wages. They have specific questions as well, some of which we address in this post. The aforementioned work-related disability could be temporary or… Read More »
Employers Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Florida
Headlines regularly scream about the high rate of workers’ compensation fraud. The headlines don’t say that worker fraud, such as fabricating or exaggerating a claim, makes up less than 2 percent of this eye-popping number. Employer fraud, usually one of the frauds discussed below, makes up the other 98-plus percent. When workers commit fraud,… Read More »
