What are the Limitations on Baltimore Worker’s Compensation Benefits?
Recently we’ve discussed the intersection of worker’s compensation and personal injury claims. Personal injury and accident lawyers Attorney Eric T. Kirk in Baltimore MD are well aware of the trio of benefits available to injured workers: wage loss, medical treatment and impairment benefits. Experienced personal injury and accident lawyers in Baltimore MD are cognizant of the... Read more »
The Medicare Set Aside
In another volume, I set out some generalities about “Medicare set asides”. In a worker’s compensation settlement, the insurance carrier may insist that funds be “set aside” for purposes of future medical care for a worker’s compensation injury. As Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. Indeed, the injured worker, his or her attorney, the WCC,... Read more »
What if My Employer Won’t File My Worker’s Compensation Claim?
Any Maryland worker who has sustained a personal injury on the job, and sought worker’s compensation benefits, knows that there some hardworking, honest employers and responsive and responsible insurance carriers out there. These folks , follow the law, timely report injuries, make sure the injured person has immediate medical care,voluntarily pay compensation, and deliver subsequent medical care to... Read more »
What is “The Scope And Course of Employment” in Maryland Workers’ Compensation?
If one sustains an accidental personal injury while on the clock at work, they are entitled to worker’s compensation benefits. The law says an accidental personal injury is one that arises out of an in the course of employment. In other words, there must be some connection between the injury causing event and the work... Read more »
Baltimore Worker’s Compensation – What is an Accidental Injury?
The injured worker must have sustained an accidental personal injury for it to be considered compensable under the workers compensation law. As Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. compensable adjective: eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury1 One case defines accidental as an unexpected happening from an unknown cause, or an... Read more »
Can I Get Wage Loss Benefits Through Worker’s Compensation?
The benefits available to workers sustaining a personal injury at work fall into two broad categories: medical care, and wage loss. Within those broad categories, there are many subdivisions. The experienced worker’s compensation attorney Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you that wage loss or indemnity benefits, in turn, come in four types: permanent total permanent partial... Read more »
Maryland Workers’ Compensation. I Cant Work at All. Temporary Total Disability
Temporary Total Disability. This is supposed to be the most straightforward benefit available in the worker’s compensation system. On its face, nothing would seem simpler. If the doctor has told an injured worker they cannot work at all in the wake of their injury, that injured worker is considered temporarily totally disabled, and is entitled to benefits.... Read more »
I’ve Been Returned to Light Duty Work. When Do I Get Temporary Partial Disability?
Maryland workers’ compensation law recognizes that the disability resulting from a work accident is not always, and in fact, is frequently not totally disabling. One post-injury scenario involves a doctor determining the person cannot work in any capacity. The law refers to that status as being temporarily totally disabled, and the corresponding benefit class as... Read more »
Maryland Worker’s Compensation. Do You Qualify for Permanent Total Disability?
In the arena of Maryland Worker’s Compensation, perhaps the most frequently asked question is ‘Do You Qualify for Permanent Total Disability’, or some variation. The best Baltimore work injury lawyers always seek all benefits to which an injured worker is entitled. That perhaps goes without saying. In Baltimore workers’ compensation cases, Permanent Partial Disability (PPD)... Read more »
Top 5 Tips for Filing a Successful Worker’s Compensation Claim in Baltimore
If you have sustained a work related injury, you must take immediate steps to guard your interests. Nothing is worse than compounding injuries from an accident, with further damage and loss caused by delayed or denied insurance benefits. A seasoned workers’ compensation lawyer Attorney Eric T. Kirk can help you protect these rights, and ensure you get... Read more »
Top 5 Steps to Take After a Baltimore Workplace Accident.
A serious workplace injury can easily render a worker incapacitated, or disabled, leaving him or her unable to perform the functions of their job, or perhaps any job. That worker needs lost wages and medical attention. Maryland, like all states, has a purportedly “self-executing” worker’s compensation system to deliver those benefits. The fact that there is... Read more »
The Top 5 Reasons Why Baltimore Workers Compensation Claims Are Denied.
Why Are Baltimore Workers Compensation Claims Denied? It’s been noted elsewhere in these Articles, that the workers’ compensation law is supposed to be self-executing. In other words, automatic. What we see in practice is that is simply not the case. Injured workers are denied benefits by insurance companies each and every day. The Workers’ Compensation... Read more »
