Workers Comp Insurance companies regularly deny legitimate claims. In other cases, they may provide some benefits but refuse others. For example, Workers Comp Insurers frequently pay for your intial medical care but refuse to authorize refferals from your doctor or pay you a weekly check.
Our job at Stow Garvin and Glenn is to help you get the benefits you are due under the law. Sometimes, we help in small ways and sometimes in life-changing ways.
Here are just a few real-life examples of how we have helped injured workers facing denials or delays.
1. A client came to us after a devastating work injury resulted in an above-the-knee leg amputation. The Workers Comp insurer denied the claim in its entirety. We took the claim to court and secured medical care and weekly benefits for the client.
2. An insurance carrier refused to pay for required home modification for a worker whose injury had left him confined to a wheelchair. As a result, the client was without a working shower for four months—a situation that was harmful to his health. We got involved and secured the necessary modifications. Additionally, we got a sizeable penalty levied against the insurance carrier to discourage such behavior in the future.
3. We represented a client who suffered a devastating injury requiring multiple surgeries. The client’s injuries were so debilitating that his spouse had to quit her job to care for him. We secured an agreement to have the wife compensated for the attendant care she was providing.
4. A client came to us because he had been misdiagnosed and was not getting the necessary medical care to treat his injury. We got the client to a new physician who was able to properly diagnose and treat the injury.
5. We represented a client whose employer, through a bit of trickery, was requiring him to perform his regular duty work even though his doctor approved only light duty work. The employer had provided the doctor with a job description which they misrepresented as “light duty”. But a more careful reading of the tasks in the description showed this was client’s regular job requiring strenuous activities that were beyond his abilities. When we provided accurate information to the doctor, he changed his opinion about sending the client back to work at that job.
These are just some recent examples of how Stow Garvin & Glenn attorneys have helped injured workers. If you need help with a work injury, call us for a free consultation.