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Welcome to our California Workers Compensation / Workmans Compensation law information web site. The goals of our site are to inform you about your legal rights if you have suffered a work injury and to make our California Workers Compensation lawyers available to assist you. We will answer your questions personally when you call!

California Workers Compensation laws (sometimes called workers comp, workman’s comp or workmens compensation) information is important to all California employees and every qualified injured worker. Common work related injuries include injury traumas which occur on construction sites or industrial area. Equally common are repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries, also known as continuous trauma work injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or chronic back pain which may occur in office work places. If you, or someone you know, has had a work-related injury or industrial or workplace accident, and wonder if it should be covered by California Workers Comp insurance, we hope that you will find this site helpful in providing information. Our experienced Workers Compensation disability attorneys are ready to serve you, should you find that legal assistance is needed relative to your California Worker’s Comp claim.

We have developed the following as general legal help information that may assist in better understanding California Workers Compensation laws and the disability benefits, medical benefits, and vocational rehabilitation benefits to which you may be entitled, as well as awards or settlements for permanent partial disabilities or permanent work restrictions.

Generally speaking, California Workers Compensation is a state-regulated insurance system that pays medical bills and may replace lost income through temporary or permanent disability payments for California employees who are injured and / or disabled at work or who have work-related injuries, industrial diseases or occupational illnesses.

Workmans Comp will pay for the medical treatment of injuries or illness if:

• the injury occurred at work or the disease or illness is job-related; and
• the injured worker is an employee and not an independent contractor who suffered an injury on the job site.

California Workers Compensation insurance will also replace some of the workers lost wages or income if:

• the work injury or industrial illness caused the California injured worker to lose some or all income for more than three days.

Ask a California Workers Compensation attorney about the specifics of your case. California also has state disability benefits to which you may be entitled. Disability insurance benefits may be used if there is a delay in Work Comp insurance payments.

An injured California worker is usually entitled to all reasonable medical care expenses that result from a work-related injury. Covered medical care by Workers Compensation insurance claims generally include: medical, surgical and hospital services, dental services, crutches, hearing aids, chiropractic treatment, physical therapy, nursing care, etc and prescribed medications. Covered expenses typically continue as long as medical treatments are reasonable and necessary to cure the on the job injury. Be sure to check with your Workers Comp attorney to determine if your employer has the right to choose his or her own medical provider for your care. Workers Compensation injury claims and Workers Compensation injury benefits are subject to California laws that your employer might not inform you of. Your California Workers Comp lawyer will explain that you have the right to take medical treatment control after 30 days and choose your own physicians.

Workmans Compensation claims may cover a variety of injuries ranging from temporary inability to work, to a permanent and total, or partial disability.

You may be entitled to payment for a partial impairment. Partial impairment is known as a partial incapacity that prevents an employee from competing in the work place as before. Medical evidence will determine the extent of your temporary as well as permanent disability. The value of your claim depends, in large part, on the extent of a permanent disability. Your Nielsen & Associates' disability attorney will be able to answer the hard injury settlement questions for you, and counsel you on:

• stipulation and award;
• compromise and release;
• the difference between temporary disability, permanent disability, partial permanent disability, and 100% disability.
• vocational rehabilitation (voc rehab)
• rights to future medical care, medical treatment and payments

You should also be aware that if you were dependent on your spouse for economic support, you may be entitled to death benefits from California Workmens Compensation. Death benefits may be available for the employee’s children if they were economically dependent on the deceased at the time of death.

California Workers Compensation laws can be very complex and confusing. Disability benefits, medical benefits, injury settlement and death benefits are determined by many different laws, specific to California. Understanding the California insurance system and the Workers Compensation Appeals Process will help to calm your fears and approach the medical and legal process more confidently. Your California Workers Compensation lawyer at Nielsen & Associates is very experienced in Workers Compensation benefit problems and is available to assist you.

Every single California accident injury claim is different and the life circumstance of each workers compensation client is unique. Please call us now for a FREE CONSULTATION and a lawyer from our law firm will meticulously review the facts of your California workers comp case with you.

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Nielsen & Associates, California Workers Compensation Attorneys
 Serving ALL of California: Northern, Central, & Southern CA

--'Making a false or fraudulent workers' compensation claim is a felony subject to up to five years in prison or a fine of up to $50,000 or double the value of the fraud, whichever is greater, or by both imprisonment and fine.' [Lab.C. § 5432(a)]

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