Nancy Wallace Attorney at Law
22365 Barton Road
Grand Terrace, CA 92313
ph: 9093799720
fax: 9093799720
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SEE THE RIGHT DOCTOR FIRST!
I want to get you to the right doctor; seeing the wrong doctor can end all benefits.
Talk to a professional experienced with Inland Empire, L.A. County and Orange County doctors (and WCAB Judges).
Do NOT count on an insurance 'Nurse' (or an adjuster) to get you a doctor!!
A lawyer costs you nothing until the end of the claim. The Insurance Company pays the lawyer out of your final recovery...you never write a check.
Beware the "TV guy" who doesn't know the approved doctors; you could end up with nothing.
Did you know...
Your employer can send you to doctors who write lies about you?
Your employer can send you to a company clinic where you are seeing someone who isn't a real doctor?
And did you know...
1. Injuries reported after your job ends are not compensible!
BE SMART: Once you realize it's a work injury, do NOT phone it in. Send a note by fax; it needs to say you are injured at work and need care. Save a fax transmission report.
SEE a DR. ASAP: One exception to the claim being non-compensible is to report the injury to a physician BEFORE you are let go. The work-connection to the injury should be in the doctor's notes.
PROBLEM: Trouble is, most doctors won't write in your chart that your injury is work-related (because your private insurance won't cover a work injury). You must find doctor familiar with Workers Comp.
NOTE: Limping around the job site in pain and telling co-workers your job makes you hurt is NOT reporting a work injury.
WARNING! Limping around or phoning in sick will likely convince your employer to fire you before you report the pain as a work-related injury.
Wait too long, or wait until you are laid off or let go, and your claim is not compensible.
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 insurer thinks you are making it all up.
The longer you wait, the harder it will be to prove you are telling the truth.
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.
Be Smart. Get REAL Workers' Compensation help.
False claims and false denials. Any person who makes or causes to be made any knowingly false or fraudulent material statement or material representation for the purpose of obtaining or denying workers' compensation benefits or payments is guilty of a felony and may be fined and imprisoned.
She has been in the Workers Compensation community in in the Inland Empire for 30 years; she knows the physicians and facilities that can truly help.
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Nancy Wallace Attorney at Law
22365 Barton Road
Grand Terrace, CA 92313
ph: 9093799720
fax: 9093799720
nancywal