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...

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:...

How Impairment Ratings Work

Some workers’ compensation injuries are deemed, 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, which is worth money, in the form of...

Are You Being Watched?

It’s quite possible. Insurance companies will try basically anything to defeat a workers’ compensation claim, including paying a private investigator hundreds or even thousands of dollars to track, watch and record an injured worker’s activities.  A...