Insurance Adjuster, speaking to Claimant: "You don't need an attorney because I'm going to settle the case with you." Unfortunately, we hear this story quite often. Insurance companies care about one thing - cash. They exist by making large profits, and they do this...

In Arkansas, some workers' compensation injuries are considered, by law, to be "permanent," and some are not.  If an injured worker has a permanent injury, he or she may be entitled to receive a permanent impairment rating that is worth money, in the form of permanent...

How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers:   A Series -   Volume 4:    Light-Duty Jobs Under the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Act, employers have a statutory obligation to provide modified-duty work to injured employees who are in an active healing...

Our Workers' Compensation Law allows and even encourages insurance carriers to hire 'nurse case managers' to handle and direct an injured worker's medical care in a claim.  Although many nurse case managers are generally good people, make no mistake - they are paid...

Unfortunately, under our Workers' Compensation Law, the insurance company in a workers' compensation case has an almost unlimited right to direct a claimant's medical care, throughout the claim.  The insurance carrier often uses this advantage, rather immediately, to...

As outlined previously, in this blog (https://hartlawfirmllp.com/the-weekly-compensation-rate-in-workers-compensation-law/), an injured employee's weekly compensation rate is extremely important to a workers' compensation case, because it often represents the only...