“Can They Take Away My Job?”
We hear this question from injured workers all the time, and the correct answer is "probably not." Under the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Act, employers have a duty to return an injured employee to work if suitable employment is available within the employee's...
Hart Law: Easy to Imitate, Difficult to Duplicate
At Hart Law, practicing Workers' Compensation Law is really important to us, because it's really important to our clients. Workers' compensation is what we do, and we work our files 7 days a week, because our clients deserve it. When we agree to take your case, we're...
How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers: A Series – Volume 6: Settling The Case
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...
A Workers’ Compensation Insurance Company’s Biggest Nightmare
Is that an injured worker will talk to an experienced workers' compensation attorney right after he or she is hurt on the job. Have questions about your work injury claim? We're here to help, anytime. By: Neal L. Hart, Attorney at 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 of permanent...
How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers: A Series – Volume 4: Light-Duty Jobs
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...
How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers: A Series – Volume 3: The Nurse Case Manager
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...
How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers: A Series – Volume 2: Manipulating The Medical Care
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...
How Insurance Companies Try To Rip Off Injured Workers: A Series – Volume 1: The Weekly Compensation Rate
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...
Is An Independent Medical Examination Really ‘Independent?’
Independent medical examinations (IMEs) are very common in Arkansas workers' compensation claims. The way it typically works is that the insurance company or one of its agents contacts the injured employee, in the middle of a claim, and says: "We're going to set you...