When you are injured, often your employer will send you to an occupational clinic. These clinics are often crowded and unable to render quality care for seriously injured workers. What happens if those clinics simply send you back to work without a substantive evaluation or treatment? The Louisiana Workers' Compensation Act provides that you are entitled to your choice of physician in each field or specialty. The request should b...

Often, insurance companies will offer to resolve conflicts with our clients. We always demand that any such resolution take the form of a judgment, which is signed by the court. We demand this because it offers great protection of the rights of our clients. It allows a mechanism for us to enforce the resolution. What if the insurance company offers to resolve a conflict and then they fail to pay the resolution? An employer or insurance co...

An accident that occurs while you are actively engaged in the performance of your duties during working hours will be regarded as having occurred in the course of your employment. Even if the work being done at the time of the accident was not within the scope of the specific job for which you were hired, as long as it was being performed pursuant to the orders of your superior, the claim would be compensable. Additionally, if you were ...

Originally Posted on January 27, 2015 An injured worker in Louisiana is entitled to choose her own physician in every field or specialty. The choice of physician must be reasonable.  For example, if you have a foot injury, you will not be approved for an evaluation with a dentist. The choice of physician is very important.  Once you make your choice, you will not be able to change physicians within the same field or specialty, w...