Navigating your way through Labor and Industries laws isn’t for the faint of heart. It’ll make you want to pull your hair out. At Carlisle and Byers, we’ll help you…
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If you have been injured on the job in the Spokane, Washington area, one of the most important decisions that you can make is to contact an experienced workers compensation…
As an injured worker with an L&I claim in Washington State, you have the right to choose your doctor… sort of. There are some requirements and restrictions. The first is…
When giving testimony, the number one goal is to be specific and direct in your answers. This in no way means being evasive or misleading, but you don’t want to…
One of the most common reasons injured workers contact me is because their doctor is asking for specific treatment and the self-insured employer refuses to pay. Obviously if the treatment…
I won’t make any bones about the fact that I am critical of our state’s worker’s compensation program, and the administration thereof. That being said, the agency that handles worker’s…
WRITTEN BY RICH BYERS | JULY 2015 Growing up the only child of parents who never graduated high school, both spending nearly three decades as custodians for state colleges, I…
Are you experiencing aggravation from a pre-existing injury (aka “lighting up)? Unless you’re under 25 years old (and maybe still then) you probably have some old injury or complaint from…
Say you’re having back pain. Would that be considered an industrial injury or occupational disease? Let’s start with injury – RCW 51.08.100 says “injury” means a sudden and tangible happening, of…
Being on time loss or “total temporary disability” payments is stressful enough because it’s less than you made while you were working. Having the Department withhold your check because your…