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Welcome to our Orange County Workers Compensation Lawyer information site. Our Orange County Workers Comp lawyers are here to assist you through the maze of California workers compensation insurance and California workers compensation laws.

In California, a Workmans Compensation case is adjudicated at the California Workers Compensation Appeals Board. Without a qualified Orange County Workmans Compensation lawyer to represent you, there is very little chance that you will receive a fair settlement from your workmans comp claim. The Workmans Compensation insurance company will hire a Work Comp attorney of their own to defend against you.

Overall, the California workers compensation and disability laws are designed to protect the injured worker. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of abuses and fraud in the California workmens compensation system, therefore Workers Comp insurance companies are often reluctant to pay workers compensation benefits even on legitimate injury claims.

There are four basic benefit categories to which you may be entitled if you have suffered a work injury.

Medical Treatment: Under California Workmans Compensation law, an injured worker is entitled to all reasonable and necessary medical treatment to care for any injury sustained during the course and scope of his employment. Such medical treatment is paid for 100% by the employer's Workers Comp insurance company.

Temporary Disability: If an injured employee is unable to work during the time he is receiving ongoing medical treatment for his work related injury, he is entitled to temporary disability checks equal to two thirds of his gross pay, up to a statutory maximum amount.

Permanent Disability: If an injured worker has a permanent disability or permanent work restriction as a result of the work injury sustained, he will be entitled to a settlement amount for that disability. Every case is different, so please call one of our Orange County Workers Compensation Attorneys to discuss the specifics of your case.

Vocational Rehabilitation: When an injured worker is declared to be "permanent and stationary" by his treating physician, that is to say, when his medical condition has stabilized with no further treatment required, and it is determined that the injured worker is no longer capable of performing his former job, then the worker is entitled to be retrained into a different kind of employment at the expense of the work comp insurance carrier.

You should be aware that not every on the job injury is due to a specific accident. Sometimes workers sustain serious injuries due to the repetitive nature of their occupations. When someone is injured because of certain repetitive motions that they perform, such injuries are called repetitive trauma, continuous trauma, or cumulative trauma injuries. Examples of these types of work injuries would be carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic back pain, and gradual hearing loss. Such injuries rarely have witnesses, but we are very successful in winning those types or workers compensation claims.

FREE CONSULTATION: Please call us now or email us for a free consultation with an Orange County Workers Comp lawyer regarding your California Workers Compensation claim. 714-835-4444

--'Making a false or fraudulent workers' compensation claim is a felony subject to up to five years in prison or a fine of up to $50,000 or double the value of the fraud, whichever is greater, or by both imprisonment and fine.' [Lab.C. § 5432(a)]

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