Workers' Compensation
Employees who get injured at the job site are qualified to receive workers' compensation. Although it is inevitable that accidents will happen, an employer is still responsible for keeping the work environment safe for all staff members. Workers' compensation injuries can be caused by slipping and falling, chemical burns, faulty equipment, lenient safety regulations, or carelessness of fellow workers.
Workers' compensation insurance companies have very little incentive to act in the employee's favor; when an injury is proven to have taken place, the insurance provider stands to lose money. The way they infer workers' compensation laws can be the difference between a denied claim and an injured employee being granted what they deserve.
Workers' compensation was unveiled in the United States during the Industrial Revolution in response to a rising number of injuries on the job. It serves as a means for employees to remain economically stable while compensating them for lost wages and medical costs. It also encourages employers to establish safe work environments because the potential amount of money that could be lost to injured workers' wages and medical bills far outweighs what they will pay out if workers can avoid hazardous work conditions and stay healthy.
Minus a few exceptions, it is mandatory in the state of Florida for all employers with four or more employees, excluding construction companies, to provide workers' compensation insurance for all workers. Employers in the construction field with at least one employee must carry workers' compensation. The majority of inadvertent injuries, diseases or illnesses contracted, and deaths occurring at the workplace are covered by law.
Common jobsite injuries- Back injury
- Head injury
- Dismemberment
- Broken bones
- Cuts and lacerations
- Death
Since the firm was founded in 1988, Morgan & Morgan attorneys have stood up for workers' rights across the State of Florida. They've dealt with toxic exposure, heart attacks, death claims, hepatitis claims, and severe orthopedic injuries.
Many lawyers on our team are affiliated with the Florida Workers' Advocates and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, two organizations that stand up for the rights of injured workers. Despite changes in workers' compensation laws in 1990, 1994, and 2003 resulting in the radical reductions in the amount and duration of workers' compensation benefits available to injured workers, the attorneys at Morgan & Morgan are dedicated to putting injured employees in position to receive the highest level of benefits permissible by law.
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