Massachusetts Compensation Lawyers Help You be Prepared

Posted by Tina Smith on October 9th, 2017

A good compensation lawyer will prep a client up; to not to have false hopes, and to be ready for a lot of work in the coming days.  

These are the things you and your lawyer must prepare for:

Gather more medical evidence: Insufficient medical evidence is often used as a reason for denying a claim.

Give him all your medical records, before and after the injury, secure appointments with your doctors, seek opinions from other doctors, make depositions from other medical experts.

 Help him gather testimonies from vocational experts regarding your job’s physical requirements, statements from family and friends about your daily activities, or evidence showing poor workplace safety or lack of training.

 All these may seem irrelevant to you, but they will bolster your claim.

 Personal circumstances: Provide your lawyer information about:

• The circumstances of the injury or illness;
• The extent of the injury or illness and how it physically and psychologically affected you;
• Whether it was partial or total;
• Your previous wages;
• Costs of past and future medical payments.

 These information will help him put an accurate and just  monetary value of your injury or illness.

He knows the tricks insurance companies use to coerce, harass or intimidate a aive a claimant into an agreement that will be disadvantageous to him in the long run.

 Your lawyer can also restructure your claim in such a way that it will be spread over a period of time, and to include the medical bills you have already spent for and future medical bills related to your injury or illness.

 Third-party claim: Third-party claims are claims against equipment or circumstances that may have contributed, or caused an injury or illness such as, faulty equipment, substandard electric, electronic or pneumatic gadgets, careless or untrained driver, etc.

 The compensation lawyer may include this if there is evidence that any of these contributed to the injury or illness. It can increase the amount of the claim.

 The Appeal: This is a three-step process in Massachusetts, and this is where the battle of attrition starts.

 Depending on how good the Massachusetts Workers Compensation Lawyer is, and how well-prepared the case was, a decision or agreement may be arrived at before reaching the third stage. Statistics show that 82% of denied claims are settled out of court - that is before the third level.

 Stages one and two are like the horse-trading stages, the give and take stage. Compensation lawyers of both sides try to stare each other down into accepting what the employee is asking, or what the insurer is offering.

At the end of the day, both parties must come to an agreement, otherwise the case is elevated to the third stage and becomes a formal court hearing.

 Very few compensation claims cases reach this far for two reasons: First, for the employee, it is long, expensive and no certainty of winning and, second, for the insurer, it is bad publicity.They don’t want to appear bullying poor defenseless workers.

 A good Ma compensation lawyer can get the best settlement amount and will most likely advise a client to take it between stages one and two.for more information about Massachusetts Workers Compensation & free consultant visit us : yourworkinjurylawyers.com