A prior history should not affect your ability to receive income benefits and medical treatment for a new injury if your job duties or an accident at work has aggravated your pre-existing injuries.
Workplace injuries and illnesses clearly increase when employers motivated by profit push employees to work longer shifts and do more work with less support and less training.
We are proud to announce that Susan J. Sadow has been included in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants. This is the 16th consecutive year that Ms. Sadow has been selected to receive this distinction.
Most Georgia workers who are injured during the summer, or at any time of year, are eligible for workers’ compensation. Part-time workers, including seasonal and temporary workers, are entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits just like full-time employees.
A study by the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine in 2006, found that compared with morning shifts, workers with afternoon shifts had a 15.2% increased risk of injury, while those on night shifts had a 27.9% greater risk.
Although they are often touted as a panacea, it is important to keep in mind that the success of spinal cord stimulators varies. Recent studies have noted that the incidence of complications from spinal cord stimulators varies from 30% to 40% of patients.
Approximately half of all ladder related accidents are due to workers carrying items as they climb. The most common type of injuries that results from a ladder related fall are fractures.
We have represented hundreds of workers in Georgia who have suffered or continue to suffer from chronic pain after on-the-job accidents. Chronic pain can develop after failed orthopedic surgeries, after crush injuries and when injured workers have been diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome “CRPS”.
Effective July 1, 2019, the following changes to Georgia’s Workers’ Compensation law will go into place. They will undoubtedly have a significant positive impact for countless numbers of injured workers:
With over 40 years of combined experience in the area of workers’ compensation, we have developed an outstanding network of contacts in the workers’ compensation industry.
