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First, you’re going to file an incident report with your employer. And then the employer is actually going to file the workers’s compensation claim with their workers’s compensation carrier. After the claim is filed by the employer with their workers’s compensation carrier or insurance company, then you will be contacted by the insurance company. They’ll typically want to know your history, how you got hurt, and those sorts of things. and a claim will be open. Now, in the event that your claim
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is denied and you have to file an appeal, you actually file the appeal by using a hearing application which is filled out and filed with the Department of Workforce Development and ultimately uh you will obtain a hearing date at which point you will either be in position to discuss settlement of your case with the insurance company or you would proceed to that hearing after filing the application for hearing. Uh and the claim would be adjudicated meaning a judge would make a decision as to uh your case in
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comparison to the case that the insurance company has put forward.
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