Nancy J. Wallace, Attorney at Law

Did you know...

Your employer can send you to doctors who write lies about you? 

Your employer can send you to clinics where you are seeing someone who isn't a real doctor?

Picking a doctor blindly from a list can result in a report stating you were never really hurt on the job ?

Seeing the wrong doctor can end all benefits.  Talk to someone experienced with Inland Empire,  L.A. County and Orange County doctors.

Talking to a law office in Santa Monica won't get you to an effective doctor in Hesperia or Moreno Valley. 

And did you know...

 Waiting too long to report your claim can kill your claim?

Afraid to report your work injury because you'll be fired? 

Labor Code 132(a) provides for penalties against Employers who terminate people for reporting a work injury.  

Employers who terminate people right after they report a work injury get to hire an expensive lawyer, and then explain to a judge why they fired a worker right after that worker reported the work injury.

But Injured Workers who wait until AFTER they are laid-off or fired cannot go forward.

Most Injuries reported after your job ends are not compensable.

BE SMART:   Don't phone it in.  Send this quick note by Fax:  "Dear Employer:  I hurt my ______ on-the-job there on or around _______ (date).  Please tell me soon who to contact for medical care. Signed: _____."   GET A FAX TRANSMISSION REPORT.  Save it.  That fax report is your witness proving the date and time the employer got your injury claim.

One exception is to report the injury to a physician.  That is a  bad idea. 

Most doctors won't write in your chart that your injury is work-related because your private insurance won't cover a work injury. 

Limping around the job site wincing in pain and telling co-workers your job makes you hurt is NOT reporting a work injury. 

But limping around and phoning in sick will likely convince your employer to fire you before you report the pain as a work-related injury. 

Wait too long, and your claim is not compensable.

You have one year from the date of the injury to report that injury to your employer...so long as you still work there.

The longer you wait, the more likely the employer and insurer think you are making it all up.

The longer you wait, the harder it will be to prove you are telling the truth.

Be Smart. Get REAL Workers' Compensation help.

It's Horrible

Adjusters are permitted to deny treatment under the new Comp system. 

Adjusters face no penalty for lying to injured workers.

Adjusters select a doctor not interested in you, then tell that doctor they can't really treat you.

Sadly, your Elected Official put this into law in 2004.

Thousands of people have to go to court to get real treatment ordered by a judge. 

But most give up and try the Emergency Room ... or live in  pain. Most people just don't want to fight.

If you are here, you are not like most people.

Don't go through this alone. 

A Certified Specialist

Nancy Wallace has been a  Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law since 1994.