What to do when you’re injured at work in Florida

If you sustain an injury in the workplace at Florida, you have certain rights to medical treatment and other benefits while you recover from your injuries.

To remain eligible for these benefits you must perform certain actions. Your responsibilities are just as important as those of your employer and the workers’ compensation board. Complying with your responsibilities can be confusing and difficult when you’re injured.

Chapman & Plymale Law, P.A., assists clients with all aspects of workers’ compensation in Florida. Contact a Stuart personal injury attorney to learn more about how to file for benefits or to bring an action against an employer who failed to fulfill his or her responsibilities to you.

When you need a workers’ compensation attorney

Anyone can file for workers’ compensation benefits in Florida, but the process and the rules are complicated. The thresholds for errors are similar to those you might encounter in court, too—mistakes can ruin your claim.

Even though filing for workers’ compensation benefits is mostly an administrative process, there are decisions that a workers’ compensation board makes about your case. Since the process of obtaining benefits involves these two different approaches, an attorney can be an important partner.

If your employer fails to fulfill his or her responsibilities to you under Florida workers’ compensation law, you can definitely benefit from an attorney.

Please contact one of our experienced workers compensation attorneys if you need advice or representation at any stage of navigating workers’ compensation in Florida:

• If your employer fails to provide the lawful amount of choices for your medical care

• If your employer fails to report the injury within seven days

• If your employer fails to pay for medical treatment

• If you require assistance with paperwork for benefits

• If you need help showing medical evidence

• If you need representation at a workers’ compensation hearing

• If you need representation to appeal a denial of workers’ compensation

Bring all documentation related to your injury, your employer, and anything else we may need to see at the time of your consultation, so that we can help you begin to obtain workers’ compensation benefits.

Call 772-283-2626 for workers’ compensation in Florida.

Contact Chapman & Plymale Law, P.A., for reliable representation in Martin County, St. Lucie County, Indian River County, and Okeechobee County, as well as Stuart, Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce, Okeechobee, Palm City, Vero Beach, Sewall’s Point & throughout Florida.