subject: Have Someone Strong In Your Corner [print this page] Most of us spend the majority of our time at work. In fact, many of us could probably say that we spend more time working than we do sleeping. We take pride in our jobs and we put all our time and energy into doing the best job we can. For some of us that means spending lots of late nights at the office doing paperwork, for others it means weeks of early morning putting up power line poles. No matter what our jobs, we all put forth all our efforts to do our work to the very best of our ability. It is perhaps that reason that it comes as such a shock to us when our employers don't fight for us when we get injured on the job.
Many employers look the other way when one of their employees sustains an on-the-job injury. They are far more concerned with what this unfortunate incident will mean to the company rather than the wounded employee. So it comes as a shock and major point of frustration when the employee knows how much he has done for the company all the years he has worked there. One would think that the company would put up a major battle for the employee to make sure he is treated fairly by the worker's compensation carrier the employer contributes to regularly on his behalf. Unbelievably, this is not what usually happens.
An injured employee certainly doesn't want to fight with a worker's compensation representative on top of everything else that has befallen him. His main objective is to get better and be healthy enough to go back to work. Instead the injured party finds that he must do battle to get his medical bills paid and be compensated for his recuperation time off work. Fighting a worker's compensation insurance company can be draining, stressful and fruitless. This is where a law firm specializing in these cases comes into your corner.
Fighting for compensation when we are injured can be absolutely exhausting, not to mention stressful. Having a lawyer to fight for us can not only help to relieve the stress and exhaustion plaguing us but they can also get us far more money than we could get on our own. Lawyers work tirelessly to fight for us and get us everything we deserve when we are injured.
Many people don't think that hiring a lawyer is necessary and some even believe that they will spend more on a lawyer than they will get from workman's compensation. While sometimes it is true that companies will help you to get your medical bills paid for and compensation for time lost a work, the fact of the matter is that you will get more money with a lawyer because they know how best to navigate the system and use it to get their clients the most they can.
Sustaining an injury at work is no holiday. When we hurt and cannot work, our income, families and emotional well being all suffer. It seems natural that the hard work we put in on behalf of our employers and the pride we take in our jobs would somehow be recognized by our company and they would reciprocate accordingly by supporting us in our time of need.
Unfortunately this is rarely what actually happens. We are often left to take matters into our own hands and it is then that we realize the tremendous difference having a lawyer to fight for us can make. We deserve to have someone fighting for us to get us everything they can, and that's exactly what a strong law firm on our side will do.
