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Workers Compensation And Personal Injury Doctors

The Doctors at Arizona Injury Medical Associates want to be your personal injury doctors like they have been for so many others. Their caring compassionate staffs are highly trained and skilled in working with patients and many different types of auto and work accident injuries. That is also why they are known as the Arizona Workers Compensation doctor to turn to when you are in need of the best work comp doctor Arizona has to offer today. What They Offer At Arizona injury Medical Associates they offer treatment and medical case management for electro diagnostics including EMG and NCV studies. They can also provide full service pain management. Second opinion consultations. They are a certified ABIME independent medical examiner for 5th and 6th edition AMA guides. They can also perform disability evaluations. Federal disability retirement examinations. At Arizona IMA they offer care with lasting relief. Treatment Options and Conditions Their treatment options include but are not limite

Workers Compensation Insurance Laws

Medical benefits that pay the necessary medical care needed to treat an employee’s injury or illness caused by work. Burial benefits for an employee’s funeral expenses if the employee dies from an illness or injury on the job. Death benefits for families to replace some of the money lost when an employee dies because of a work-related injury or illness. Death benefits are 75% of the deceased employee’s average weekly wage. Income benefits replace some of the money employees lose because of a work-related injury or illness, including: - Temporary income benefits - Impairment income benefits - Supplemental income benefits - Lifetime income benefits In Texas, you may get temporary income benefits if your work-related injury or illness causes you to lose some or all of your wages for more than seven days. Temporary income benefits are 70% of the difference between your average weekly wages. The money you are able to earn after your work-related injury. In Texas, you can get impairment inco

Can I Change My Workers' Compensation Treating Doctor?

One of the most common questions we receive about worker’s compensation has to deal with changing doctors. To help explain the law on this issue I will use three examples: Worker is injured on the job, and he/she goes to the Emergency Department for treatment, and then requires follow up medical care. Who gets to pick the doctor the worker must see for the follow-up treatment? Answer - Employer. But do not lose hope just yet… Worker is not without rights and options. What Does New Mexico Law Say? New Mexico law allows the employer to initially (I repeat, initially) select which doctor you must see. The employer has two options. First, they can select the doctor and the injured worker is required to present for follow up treatment to that doctor. Alternatively, the employer can allow the injured worker to select which doctor to follow up with. *Important Rule - An injured worker should first check with their employer about who is to select the doctor before continuing treatment. If the

But Even Though This Was True

Public sector workers are better paid than their private sector equivalents. Public sector unions, please take note By Ruth Lea for the Daily Mail Published: 10:22, 19 July 2012 | Updated: 16:10, 19 July 2012 20 The Office for National Statistics (ONS) quietly and unobtrusively continues to cast light on the persistent, if not widening, differences in the pensions and pay of employees in the public and private sectors. The ONS released some disturbing data on private sector pensions this week. They demonstrated that “defined benefit” pension schemes, where the pension is usually linked to the employee’s salary, are dying in the private sector. The much-treasured final salary schemes are the best-known of these. According to the ONS over a third - 34% - of employees benefited from defined benefit schemes as recently as 1997. Last year the proportion was down to 9%. In a decade’s time they will have probably all-but-disappeared. As pension funds take a battering, many employers have resp

Will The Workers' Compensation Doctor Treat Me Fairly?

Many people refer to the doctors who provide medical treatment for work injuries as workers compensation doctors. Some people use the term “company doctors”. In Georgia, injured workers are often told that they must go to the doctor that the employer or workers’ compensation insurance company chooses. This is not the case the case. Do Workers Compensation Doctors Actually Work For My Employer? Probably not. The doctors are picked by your employer to be on their list of doctors (otherwise known as the “panel of physicians”). However, that does not mean the doctor works for your employer. Your employer should have a posted panel of physicians (unless your employer uses a WC/MCO). This panel should have at least six doctors on it. The doctor that your employer sent you to is probably one of the doctors on the panel. Many employers use the panel of physicians to their advantage. They may pick doctors who are likely to say that you are not as hurt as you say you are. They may pick doctors w