Workers' Comp Claims: The 10 Biggest Mistakes Employers Make

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No matter what precautions are taken, employees are going to be hurt on the job. The injury cam be a strain, a cut, or the beginning of carpal tunnel syndrome. Whether or not an injured worker contacts an attorney depends on how the employer and the insurance provider respond to the injury.

Learn how to help your clients avoid the 10 most common workers' comp mistakes that cause employees to call a lawyer. When you participate in the all-new Tennessee Attorneys Memo audio conference, Workers' Comp Claims: The 10 Biggest Mistakes Employers Make, you'll help your employer clients lower litigation costs, increase workplace morale, and ensure faster recovery times for injured workers.

Rocky McElhaney, named 2007 Best of the Bar in the area of workers' compensation by the Nashville Business Journal, will show you how to settle workers' comp claims amicably -- and without going to court. You'll learn how to help your clients avoid such blunders as:

• Not providing medical care immediately - A delay in providing medical treatment often results in the employee calling a lawyer. While many workers may not be well-versed in workers' compensation laws, they do understand they are entitled to go see a doctor.
• Hassled over physical therapy - Physical therapy is the best way to quickly get an injured worker back to work and back to productivity. Yet employers are hesitant to allow employees to go to therapy during the workday. If your client's organization does not have an open door policy when it comes to physical therapy, they are making a mistake that could lead to litigation.
• Pushy case managers - Injured workers do NOT like pushy nurse case managers. Your clients can avoid legal trouble by making sure the case manager does not go to a doctor's appointment with the employee. And under no circumstances should the case manager go into the examining room with an injured worker.
• Safety issues - Some of the most common workplace injuries occur because of faulty equipment or unsafe work areas. When employers do nothing to address malfunctioning line equipment or inadequate lighting, an injury is more likely to result in legal action.
• Violating doctors' restrictions - Doctors place restrictions on work duties so their patients can heal. If the patient doesn't have time to heal properly, another injury is more likely to occur. Yet many supervisors make employees violate doctors' restrictions every day. These violations often result in a call to a lawyer.
• Plus, 5 other workers' comp mistakes your clients MUST avoid to safeguard their organization...

February 20, 2008

Larry R. "Rocky" McElhaney II is the principal and founding member of Rocky McElhaney Law Firm. He is a 1999 honors graduate of Nashville School of Law. He has argued twice before the Tennessee Supreme Court, establishing ground-breaking legal rulings in workers’ compensation.

Rocky focuses his practice on representing injured people in significant matters of workers’ compensation, personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, tractor trailer and auto wrecks and disability insurance claims. He does not represent insurance companies. A small part of Rocky’s practice involves representing state chartered financial institutions in creditor’s rights and collection cases.

Rocky is a professor of Legal Writing at Nashville School of Law. He currently serves as President of the Nashville Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division. Rocky is an active member of the Tennessee Association for Justice, serving on the Young Lawyer committee. He is also a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Rocky is a member of the Nashville and Maury County bar associations. He routinely lectures to other lawyers regarding workers’ compensation and trial related issues.

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