Understanding your rights to fair compensation after a workplace injury is crucial. While trying to recover from an injury (and dealing with the physical pain and psychological stress), workers often find themselves fighting against a complex worker's compensation...
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Worker’s Compensation
Benefits for workers’ families after a deadly workplace accident
Workplace injuries are difficult for most families when their primary financial providers are incapacitated and unable to continue working while they recover. However, in some of the most tragic situations, the injuries sustained at work may be deadly, and the...
Workplace Fatalities
Fatal workplace accidents increased for 2021 as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over 5,000 people died on the job in 2021, an almost 10% increase from the prior year. More men than women died from work-related accidents (4,741 men and 448 women). Black...
Decreasing Work Comp Rates for Employers
Work Comp Rates for Employer Go Down Again. For the seventh year in a row, Wisconsin employers (on average) will be paying less for worker's compensation insurance. Continuing a trend in recent years, the average work comp premium rates will go down another 8.47%...
Delivery Drivers…and the injury risks faced on the job
Many workers in Milwaukee have a set place where they do their work, such as a store, restaurant, warehouse, office building or home office. Then there are the jobs that put you on the road all day (or night)--delivery drivers, for example. For delivery drivers,...
What is the statute of limitations period for workers’ comp cases in Wisconsin?
An injury on the job will set you back physically, mentally and financially. But knowing that your employer must carry workers’ compensation insurance gives you some sense of comfort, even if it is just a little. One aspect of a workers' comp claim that you should be...
Who takes care of healthcare workers when they are ill or injured?
We trust our nurses, nursing assistants, doctors, and other medical professionals to help provide care when we are ill or injured — but what happens when they are the ones that need help? Who takes care of the health care providers when they need assistance? What...
Watch Out For the Heat
A few years ago I received a call from the brother of a janitor who was found dead in a small windowless janitor supply room. Since he was found dead in the workplace, his brother inquired about whether there was some sort of a work connection. After some further...
Beware of Bogus “Work For Cash” Schemes
I hear a lot about workers’ compensation fraud, sometimes from defense attorneys, sometimes from insurance adjusters, and even sometimes from judges and doctors. The real statistics indicate the vast majority of workers’ compensation fraud is done by employers,...
Little Known Special Benefits (for Injured Workers With Prior Surgeries)
Wisconsin provides an additional benefit for injured workers who have prior surgeries or conditions. If an injured worker, because of the work injury, has a permanent disability equal to 200 weeks of benefits, then additional benefits may be due after the claim...