California Workers’ Compensation Articles

It’s not unusual for an employee who has been injured while on the job to experience pain and suffering immediately after the injury, but for weeks, months, and even years after treatment and rehab are finished. While employees in all fifty states, as well as federal employees, are either covered under federal or state workers’ comp laws, workers’ compensation benefits don’t include punitive damage or damages for pain and suffering. If you suffer an injury

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Broken bones and fractures are common workplace injuries, especially in the construction industry due to the physical nature of the work. Broken bones can result in significant medical expenses as well as lost time from work. Fractures can take anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks to heal, depending upon the severity of the break. Treatment for broken bones depends upon the location of and, again, on the severity of the break. For stable bone fractures,

Permanent and stationary is a medical term that is used in California workers’ comp cases and is interchangeable with the term maximal medical improvement or MMI. If you’ve been injured on the job, a finding of permanent and stationary or “P&S” is made by a doctor when you’ve reached a point where your medical condition is no longer improving or getting worse; in other words, your condition has plateaued to the point where additional medical

If you’ve been injured on the job, the nature of your injury may be such that you’re unable to do the same job after your recovery and/or rehabilitation is completed. This can be especially true when an accident in the workplace results in serious injury such as crushed limbs or multiple broken bones that require surgery and that may have had an impact on the surrounding muscles, organs, and nerves. Injuries such as this can