Are You Leaving Cash On The Table?
At Hart Law, we get the privilege of visiting, on a daily basis, with many, many people about their past and present workers' compensation claims. One story we hear more often than you'd think goes something like this: "I had a workers' compensation shoulder...
What If I Can’t Get A Lawyer To Take My Case?
We hear this question quite a bit. Unfortunately, our Workers' Compensation Law has, for several decades, been pretty unfair to working folks. Many disputed workers' compensation claims are either hard to win, provide insufficient benefits to the employee, if won,...
Can I have an Arkansas Workers’ Compensation claim if I live outside the State of Arkansas?
The answer is very possibly. We've been practicing workers' compensation law for years and years here at Hart Law, and have represented many people during that time period who were not Arkansas residents; yet they still had Arkansas workers'...
Many Thanks To Our Clients
Many Thanks To Our Clients At Hart Law, we really like our clients. They're good, hard working folks who we genuinely enjoy getting to know as we're helping to guide them through their workers' compensation claims. Without our clients, there would be no Hart Law. ...
How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers: A Series – Volume 5: Impairment Ratings
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...
Loss of Future Earning Capacity in Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Law: What Happens If I Get Injured and Then Can’t Get a Good Job?
Of all the benefits available to injured workers under our Workers’ Compensation Act, this is one of the most valuable. Unfortunately, insurance companies rarely pay out wage-loss disability benefits voluntarily. In fact, in order for the insurance folks and their...
Foot Injury Claim?
We successfully resolved a couple foot injury claims recently, so I thought I'd write a short workers' compensation foot injury blog. I don't think there's much dispute over the fact that on-the-job foot injuries are particularly devastating to working folks. ...
Workers’ Compensation and Personal Injury
Most of the time, a employee injured at work has only one path to recovery - our Workers' Compensation Act. Unfortunately, our Exclusive Remedy Doctrine bars injured workers from suing their employers for negligence. If you're hurt at work, then workers' comp is what...
Communicating With Clients In Workers’ Compensation Claims
Arkansas Rule Of Professional Conduct 1.4 states that lawyers shall "reasonably consult with the client" and "keep the client reasonably informed" about the status of his or her case. It goes on to require that lawyers "promptly reply to reasonable requests for...
Idiopathic Injuries
In order for an insurance company to have to pay on a work injury claim in Arkansas, the injury must, among other things, arise out of and in the course of an injured worker's employment. In other words, the work injury must be a natural and probable consequence or...