Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Lawyer Fighting For You
If you are injured on the job or become ill or disabled due to a work related cause, you need a law office that has working knowledge of your type of work and/or work injury. In the 30 years plus of practice in this area of law, our firm has handled nearly every type of work accident that can exist in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding communities. Our extensive knowledge of these industries and businesses and the common dangers associated with each will enable us to better represent you and help you through your work injury both with respect to any legal processes as well as our extensive knowledge of the medical community in which physicians can better serve your medical needs. We help coordinate your medical treatment with your legal rights to assure all your needs are met.Over the years a sample of the industries and/or businesses for whom our clients have worked and were injured are as follows: Construction, industrial, manufacturing, factory, warehouse, commercial and non-commercial drivers, airline workers, nurses, healthcare workers', municipal employees including police, fire corrections, sanitation road workers, EMS people, service workers including daycare workers, certified nurse assistants, school teachers, delivery drivers, engineers, cement mill workers, ... etc.
Having been in the Lehigh Valley for an extensive period of time and witnessed this change from an industrial community to a combination industrial service community coupled with our extensive knowledge of these industries and the common dangers associated with each will help us to better serve your legal needs in proving any and all matters associated with your work injury. Our office is one of the oldest workers' compensation firms in the Lehigh Valley and we represent exclusively the injured worker. Furthermore, unless we secure or preserve your benefits under the Workers' Compensation Act we do not charge a fee. Our focus is solely upon your best interests and providing a personal service to protect your interests.
*The common injuries that we have encountered over the years have been:
- Lower back
- Mid back
- Neck/cervical disk
- Rotator cuff
- Shoulder impingement
- Tennis elbow (epicondylitis)
- Carpal tunnel
- Brachial plexis
- Ankle
- Plantar fascitis
- Hearing loss
- Occupational exposure to chemicals and other materials
- Specific losses of a limbs, fingers, etc.
- Death claims
- Head, face or neck scars
- Hernias
- Compartment syndrome
*You must remember that your rights under the Workers' Compensation Act include injuries which are limited solely to an aggravation or exacerbation or acceleration of a pre-existing condition that you may have had. In other words, if your work activities or injury made a pre-existing condition worse, you are entitled to benefits under the Workers' Compensation Act.
• You deserve compensation
Getting the workers' compensation benefits to which you're entitled by law is an absolute must in most cases. But often it turns into a legal battle for which you need a qualified attorney, because your company's insurance carrier is likely to fight your claim every inch of the way.
No, it's not fair. But the insurance firms maximize their profits by minimizing the claims they pay out, and they have entire divisions devoted to this end. They fight even legitimate claims by people who desperately need to pay for hospital stays, rehabilitation, lost wages, everyday bills, and mortgages.
• Here's how I can help
We explain the whole workers' compensation process. We explain everything in plain English and create a comfort zone for you. Our goal is to help you come up with a plan to get you through this difficult time and give you a projection of where your life will hopefully go both through the workers' compensation process and thereafter. We will answer your questions, talk about the merits of your case, discuss your options, and decide how to best move forward for you in your case. We will be completely honest with you. If your case has problems we will let you know what they are. We do not create realistic pictures for you just to get you in as a client.
• Providing all the right resources for you
Insurance companies have huge budgets for their attorneys, doctors that they hire to examine you and testify on behalf of the insurance companies, nurse case managers, and generally adjusters who are focused just on ending your benefits. As a result various tactics are routinely used by the insurance companies. These tactics provide significant motivation for our office to use our experience as trial attorneys to force settlement or battle in court for a successful outcome for you, our clients. Never sign anything without the advice and consultation with an attorney. If an insurance company offers you or a family member a settlement directly or indirectly or tries to change your benefits you should call our office immediately. Rarely will an insurance company offer you what you are entitled to or deserve. Remember there is no fee unless we succeed in obtaining your benefits or preserve your benefits for you or obtain a lump sum settlement. In any event our fee is 20% and in most every instance we will obtain a much larger than 20% award for you and protect your rights in the process.
Insurers have big budgets for attorneys, and pay doctors who will testify in court about your condition.
These insurance company tactics really motivate me to take them on, using my experience as a tough trial attorney to force a settlement or battle in court for a successful outcome.
• DO NOT sign anything without consulting an attorney
If an insurance company offers you or a family member a settlement directly, or tries to change your benefits, CALL A LAWYER IMMEDIATELY. It is probably much less than you deserve, and an experienced workers compensation lawyer is always available to protect your best interests and more than make up the 20% legal fee involved in a workers compensation case.
Remember, there is NO FEE for consultations in workers' compensation and personal injury cases, and no charge for my work unless your case is successful.