Posted September 16, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:00:24 If your employer doesn’t have workers’ compensation insurance, fortunately in the state of Wisconsin, we have what’s called the uninsured fund or the UEF. And that fund is available to individuals that get hurt when their employers do not have coverage or they do not have workers’ compensation insurance coverage. […]
Read MorePosted September 16, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:00:13 The most common reason that a workers’ compensation claim gets denied is because the injured worker has a significant pre-existing or pre-injury history. 00:00:13 – 00:00:40 So if an injured worker has hurt the same body part in the past or has been in treatment for that same body part […]
Read MorePosted September 16, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:03 – 00:01:19 Yes, you can choose your own doctor for treatment after a work injury. In fact, we would uh recommend that you choose your own doctor after the work injury. The main reason being is that your doctor knows you. They know your prior history or at least they can access […]
Read MorePosted September 16, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:03 – 00:01:16 If the claim is conceded, um, you’re going to receive workers compensation benefits immediately. Meaning, if the insurance company is saying yes, the claim is compensable or yes, you sustained an injury at work, you will receive benefits almost immediately within a week or two of sustaining the injury. If, […]
Read MorePosted September 16, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:05 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 […]
Read MorePosted September 16, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:07 Yes, absolutely. In order for you to appeal a denied workers’s compensation claim in Wisconsin, the first thing that you’re going to need is medical support from your doctor that’s saying that the condition is workrelated. And then from there, you’d fill out an application for hearing, at which point […]
Read MorePosted May 30, 2025
This transcript was auto-populated Transcript: 00:00:00 [Music] There are four main benefits that you can obtain under the Wisconsin Workers Compensation Act. The first is what’s called temporary total disability. Temporary total disability is also known as lost wages. And in Wisconsin, it’s paid at 2/3 of your average weekly wage tax-free. The 2/3 […]
Read MorePosted May 30, 2025
This transcript was auto-populated Transcript: 00:00:03 Simply put, you don’t. Um, Wisconsin workers compensation law is a no fault system, which means that fault does not play into whether or not your claim is compensible or not. We joke about the fact that if the machine says don’t put your hand in it, and […]
Read MorePosted April 22, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:03 the first thing you want to do after that there’s an injury in Wisconsin is you want to report that injury to your supervisor Not only do you want to report that verbally but you also want to be sure to fill out a written incident report In addition to filling out […]
Read MorePosted April 22, 2025
Transcript: 00:00:03 the best way to find out or determine if you have a valid worker’s compensation claim is to consult with an attorney who specializes in Wisconsin workers compensation law in the alternative and while I wouldn’t recommend this somebody could contact the Department of Workforce Development in Wisconsin to get some information […]
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