If you’ve been dealing with a work injury and everything that goes along with being on worker’s comp, the last thing you want to worry about is taxes. Well, I’ve…
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Say you’re having back pain. Would that be considered an industrial injury or occupational disease? Industrial Injury Explained Let’s start with injury – RCW 51.08.100 says “injury” means a sudden and…
WRITTEN BY RICH BYERS | JULY 2015 Impacting a Worker’s Compensation Attorney Growing up the only child of parents who never graduated high school, both spending nearly three decades as…
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…
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…
What is Time Loss or Wage Loss? Being on time loss or “total temporary disability” payments is stressful enough because it’s less than you made while you were working. Having…