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…
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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…
You just lifted something you have lifted a thousand times over, but this time it’s different. You feel a twinge in your back. (“Twinge”, what a strange word to describe…