If you’ve been hurt working in or around Metairie, or anywhere in Southeast Louisiana, you need an experienced workers’ comp lawyer to guide you through the workers’ compensation system. The Law Firm of Shawn Murray has been fighting hard for injured workers for over 20 years. Click here to see our client reviews. We’ve helped many Metairie Louisiana workers receive the treatment they need, and the money they deserve, as quickly as possible.
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Getting injured at work in or around Metairie poses great difficulties for the injured worker. The insurance company will use anything they can, an innocent misstatement, a delay in reporting the accident, or a gap in time between the accident date and the date they receive medical treatment in order to defeat your claim. The more accurate and timely you are with reporting your accident and injuries, the more likely your claim for workers’ compensation benefits will be accepted. That goes for both the information you report to your employer and what you report to your treating physician(s).
Louisiana law gives you the right to choose your own doctor in any area or specialty of medicine. Rarely do employers or workers’ compensation adjusters tell injured workers that. Rather, they will send you to a company doctor who will almost certainly say you’re fine and send you back to work.
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Although you may want to be a “team player” and not complain, hoping that your symptoms will resolve on their own, your employer and their insurer will almost certainly use that against you. It is your burden to prove that you were injured on the job. Your employer and their insurance company will try to cast any doubt they can on your version of the events. They will put your credibility at issue.
Consequently, it is absolutely necessary that you contact an experienced workers’ comp attorney in the Metairie LA area immediately after being involved in an accident on the job. And at The Law Firm of Shawn Murray, workers’ compensation law is what we do.
These are the steps you need to take when you have sustained a serious accident on the job:
- Report the accident to your employer and fill out an accident report as soon as possible;
- Receive medical treatment immediately by presenting to the closest ER or Urgent Care;
- Follow all of the instructions given to you by the ER/Urgent Care physician; and then
- Contact an experienced workers’ comp attorney in order to discuss your claim.
At The Law Firm of Shawn Murray we provide extremely effective, personal representation for Metairie, Louisiana workers who’ve been injured on the job. We will try our level best to keep you out of court if at all possible by fighting all the battles on the front end first. The last thing you need is the stress and anxiety of going through litigation while you’re trying to heal up from your work injuries.
Call The Law Firm of Shawn Murray now at (985) 624-9393!
Many people may not realize that workers’ compensation is what’s known as a “no fault” system. That means it doesn’t matter how much an employee in Metairie may be responsible for their injuries due to their own carelessness, they are still entitled to full workers’ compensation benefits.
Getting hurt on the job is a serious matter which can have far-reaching consequences for you and your family for many years to come, possibly for the rest of your life. It is not something that can be taken lightly in the hope that your symptoms will resolve and that your employer will treat you fairly. Call Metairie Worker’s Comp Lawyer Shawn Murray now at (985) 624-9393. You need to protect both yourself and your family, for today and also for the future.
Our office is conveniently located one block from the Causeway Bridge in Mandeville. We will also meet you at The Galleria in Metairie if that is more convenient. If your injuries prevent you from driving we will travel to you.
Give us a call now to discuss your workers’ compensation claim in or around Metairie Louisiana at (985) 624-9393. Or fill out our contact form and someone will contact you right away. Initial consultations are free and there is no obligation. There are no out-of-pocket costs, our fee is only 20%, all expenses will be advanced and if we don’t recover money then no reimbursement will be owed.
Call The Law Firm of Shawn Murray now at (985) 624-9393! We look forward to speaking with you.