Whether from contact with industrial chemicals, an open flame, or just an extremely hot coffee pot, suffering a burn in the workplace can disrupt both your professional and personal life for months afterwards. Just like any other work-related injury, you can seek workers’ compensation benefits for a burn you sustain at work as long as you are classified as an employee of the company you work for.
However, maximizing the benefits available to you can be deceptively difficult, especially if you try to pursue your claim without a seasoned workers’ compensation attorney’s help. To increase your chances of getting fairly reimbursed for your medical bills, lost work income, and more, you should strongly consider contacting a New Jersey workplace burn injury lawyer from the Law Office of Lloyd E. Bennett Esq., P.C. as soon as possible.
If you suffer any kind of physical injury while performing job-related duties, you should notify your immediate supervisor of the incident immediately if you do not need emergency medical attention, and no more than 30 days afterward. Creating this written record of your accident will be crucial to ensuring you have workers’ compensation benefits available to you if you need them later. Additionally, failing to report your injury could lead to a future workers’ compensation claim ending almost as soon as it begins.
You should also make sure you follow instructions from your doctors and attend all follow-up appointments, since failing to do so could give an insurance provider a reason to believe your injury is not as bad as you claim it to be. Finally, it can be very helpful to keep copies of your medical records and bills, invoices, and pay stubs, as your New Jersey workplace burn accident attorney can use these later to prove you have experienced specific financial losses due to your injuries.
Any type of physical trauma you experience while at work or otherwise performing job-related tasks could potentially serve as valid grounds for a workers’ compensation claim. However, the purpose of workers’ compensation is to reimburse you for certain forms of financial harm you will experience due to a work-related injury. While you should always report workplace burn injuries to your supervisor, no matter what, these injuries may not necessarily justify legal action.
More specifically, first-degree burns that affect only the outermost layer of skin typically heal on their own with nothing more than basic first aid, so they will generally not result in medical bills, lost work income, or any other losses workers’ compensation is designed to address. Conversely, second-degree and third-degree burns always require immediate professional medical care, so they are textbook examples of workplace injuries our New Jersey lawyers can help you build a workers’ compensation claim around.
In addition to being uniquely painful, high-degree burns can be uniquely challenging to build workers’ compensation claims around. However, by working with a capable legal professional from the Law Office of Lloyd E. Bennett Esq., P.C., you can significantly increase your chances of achieving a favorable case result and obtaining all the benefits you are legally entitled to.
We have been helping people like you get good outcomes from cases like yours since 1987, and we can put that experience to work for you as soon as you give us a call. Contact us today to discuss your potential claim with a New Jersey workplace burn injury lawyer.
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