Posted December 02, 2025
Oftentimes, an employer is rushing an employee to return to work after a work injury. And the main reason for that is because the employer wants that employee back, wants them completing the work and doing what they were hired to do. However, in the event that the employer is rushing you or the […]
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Posted December 02, 2025
The best way to deal with an insurance company adjuster or a worker’s compensation insurance adjuster is to be kind and considerate and patient. Most of the adjusters are not necessarily trying to create problems or chaos for you. They typically have too many claims and they have too much going on and that […]
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Posted October 31, 2025
An employer in the state of Wisconsin can technically terminate an individual for virtually any reason. I would say that because, in Wisconsin, we have an at-will policy, meaning employees are at will. That being said, if it is a termination directly as a result of the workers’ compensation matter or claim, there can […]
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Posted October 31, 2025
Delays are common in workers’ compensation cases. It takes a considerable amount of time to get a claim opened, to have benefits paid, to get the necessary treatment, and so on and so forth. The best way to ensure that things are moving as quickly as they can is to find a medical provider […]
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Posted October 09, 2025
00:01 If your employer denies your workers’ compensation claim, uh the first thing that you’re going to want to do is contact an attorney who specializes in workers’ compensation matters just to get through, kind of what your next steps are and how to file an appeal. Additionally, what you’re going to want to […]
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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. […]
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Posted 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 in […]
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Posted 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 […]
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Posted 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, […]
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Posted 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 […]
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