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What can a Workers' Compensation Attorney do for you in your claim for Workers' Compensation Benefits?
I cannot speak for all Workers Compensation attorneys, but I can tell you what we at the Keith Williams Law Group do for our clients and what your Workers Compensation attorney should do for you:
1. Have an initial meeting with you in order to gather all the essential facts and evaluate the merits of your workers compensation claim.
2. Educate and teach you about Tennessee workers compensation claims.
3. Educate and teach you about the workers compensation mediation, benefit review process, benefit review conference and litigation process.
4. Track and keep up with your medical treatment until you are released from treatment by all of your treating medical providers.
5. Gather all documentary evidence and written records such as medical records, get updated records from treating physician, witness’s statements, wage statement and employment records.
6. Do a thorough investigation and inspection of the scene of the injury, taking measurements and photos.
7. Interview all known witnesses and others in which the witness may lead.
8. Contact your employer and Workers Compensation insurance company to put them on notice of your claim against them. FAILURE TO GIVE NOTICE WITHIN THE REQUIRED TIME MAY BAR ANY POTENTIAL RECOVERY.
9. Analyze all potential defenses of the employer, such as, statute of limitations, defective notice, independent contractor relationship, and/or pre-existing conditions.
10. Talk to your physician and review all reports and records to fully understand your injuries, condition and prognosis.
11. Get your impairment rating and permanent restrictions; advance the fee for independent medical evaluation and/or a vocational assessment.
12. Send you to our doctor for exam and impairment rating and permanent restrictions.
13. Meet with you after your medical treatment is complete to decide whether to accept any settlement offers that may have been made by the workers compensation insurance company or proceed to mediation.
14. Conduct negotiations with the workers compensation insurance adjuster in an effort to settle your claim, before the mediation process.
15. Fight for medical treatment with a Request for Assistance (RFA).
16. And appear at a Benefit Review Conference (BRC).
17. If necessary file suit, if not settle at mediation.
18. If a lawsuit is filed, prepare for depositions, answer interrogatories, and requests for production of documents submitted by your employer.
19. Prepare interrogatories, requests for production of documents, and / or requests for admissions to your employer.
20. And then analyze the information, documents and data they provide their answers to.
21. Take your doctor’s deposition to be used as evidence at trial.
22. Prepare and take the deposition of your employer, human relations manager, and any witnesses, the employer’s factual witnesses, and your employer’s expert witnesses and physicians who will be testifying on their behalf.
23. File pre-trial briefs, motions in limine to keep out irrelevant evidence.
24. Fight to keep in all helpful evidence and to exclude harmful evidence from trial.
25. Try your case in court to a final verdict in front of the Judge.
26. Handle any appeal of the verdict if appealed.
This is not an exhaustive list, but it does provide a good overview of what we typically do for our clients, as well as what an experienced Workers Compensation attorney should do for you in your Tennessee workers compensation claim.
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