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Comment on Light Duty Trap by Terri

Terri — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:26:31 +0000

Hire an attorney. I am not being flip – you have just reached the end of being able to manage this claim yourselves. Your son might want to consider seeing a Physiatrist – a physical medicine rehabilitation physician. This type of medical provider can make sure he is getting the proper treatment for his injury, and can properly assess his level of functioning and careful review the job analyses which I am sure are flying around. Your son’s PPD (permanent partial disability) award is not likely to be high, given his diagnosis, so it is important to try and get as much vocational assistance as possible to help him return to the work force. Get help. While an attorney can never guarantee an outcome, a good attorney will make sure your son gets the benefits he is entitled to receive, and that is really all we can ask out of the system, isn’t it?

Comment on Light Duty Trap by Rene LaPolla

Rene LaPolla — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:18:04 +0000

My son was injuried on the job with a moving company. He sustained an injury to his back they call a strain/sprain. He has been through physical therapy feeling worse then before the treatment. He was then treated by a chiropractor
which was a temporary fix. He has a VRC who tried to find him employable as a fast food counter worker and not only can he not stand for 8 hrs. he ha no experience in that field. Now they are trying to say he can deliver pizzas and his PCE under trunk rotation both sitting and standing says never. In order to drive you have to rotate @ the trunk unless you never turn to drive properly. This has been going on for almost 2 years and his condition is worse than it was @ the time of injury. Any suggestions?

Comment on Light Duty Work by Terri

Terri — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:48:05 +0000

If your medical provider has approved the return to the light duty job, you should go to work, or risk losing your benefits. That said, you should clearly talk to your doctor about the drive, and make sure you are authorized to do it. He may well suggest you avoid taking the meds until after your shift; or may conclude you can not do the drive given the medication. In any event – let your physician’s advice guide you at this point.

Comment on Light Duty Work by Michael Logan

Michael Logan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:59:18 +0000

I have a work related injury. I drive a truck over the road. I fell on the job. I am receiving loss wages benifits. I have 3 ruptured disks in my neck and 2 in my lower back. I am facing surgery at the least in my neck if not both neck and lower back. My employer has created a job that did not exist befor my injury. He wants me to do light duty as a night watchman sitting at a desk and answering a phone that nobody will be calling because there is nobody around to do anything. I am taking prescribed strong pain meds. With my condition I am walking with a walker and cannot drive because of the meds. Do I have to take the light duty work if I cannot drive because of meds? I dont understand what the purpose of trying to put me to work at a job that never existed before and having doing anything at a job on heavy meds. I cannot by law drive a vehicle of any kind to and from work because the narcotic meds. By the way it is 80mi one way to and from my job. Please give me advice on what I can do at this point and time?

Comment on Light Duty Work by Terri

Terri — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:47:20 +0000

You don’t say if the shoulder surgery was done under a workers compensation claim. I’m guessing yes, or you are not likely to have posted your question here. If this is a workers compensation claim, and your employer tells you to stay home because they do not think you can do your job yet, then you are entitled to time loss benefits. You shouldn’t be using your vacation days. Talk to your doctor about restrictions on your work activities, then share those restrictions with your employer.

Comment on Light Duty Work by D. Dolores

D. Dolores — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:40:04 +0000

i have a position reviewing data for an environmental company. i just had shoulder surgery and after 10 days returned to work. I am slower at my job, but getting better everyday. I will be in a restrictive sling for 5 more weeks. i am still in alot of pain. Yesterday, a co-worker came up to me and clamped their hand down on my shoulder, then shook it. I reacted by screaming then was in pain spasms for the rest of the day and unable to work. i was told by my employer that i am not fit for duty if i react this way to being touched. i responded politely that i am fit for duty and have the right to work, and that my employer needs to provide me with a work environment where i will not be touched, jostled or bumped into during the course of the day for the next 6 weeks. i am at home today using up my last vacation day while recovering from the muscle spasms set off by my co-worker. do i have the right to return to work tomorrow?

Comment on Ability To Work Assessment by BloggerDude

BloggerDude — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:15:47 +0000

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Comment on What if my employer is a Native American Tribe? by Tony Brown

Tony Brown — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:51 +0000

I don’t know If I said it already but …Excellent site, keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,

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Comment on Workers’ Compensation Offset of Social Security Retirement Benefits – Can it be stopped? by Terri

Terri — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:49:47 +0000

You mention that you took “Voluntary Retirement” – this can raise a whole host of issues. If you “retired” because of your industrial injury, then you should continue to be eligible for time loss benefits so long as your injury prevents a return to reasonably continuous gainful employment. However, if you voluntarily retired for reason unrelated to your injury, then you are no longer eligible for time loss benefits. You have enough unanswered questions that it is probably time to talk to an attorney.

Comment on Workers’ Compensation Offset of Social Security Retirement Benefits – Can it be stopped? by Ken

Ken — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:09:34 +0000

also, update correction my right shoulder was done in 2005 not 2008.
Also, was I suppose get a time-loss check? after the surgery July? If so should I have to appeal?

Thanks,
Ken