Blog Posts in Workers' compensation knee injury

In Georgia workers' compensation claims , settlement is a voluntary process. A jury cannot award a settlement and a judge cannot award a settlement. The only way to settle a workers' compensation ...

Under Georgia workers' compensation law , a workers' compensation carrier is required to provide treatment for an aggravation of a pre-existing condition. However, they are only required to provide ...

In Georgia , unfortunately, there are no pain and suffering damages allowed against an employer in a workers' compensation claim . However, if a third party (other than a co-worker or representative ...

An Independent Medical Evaluation (IME) can be scheduled by either the workers' compensation carrier or the injured worker in a Georgia workers' compensation claim . If the claim is accepted as ...

Knee injuries are very common on the jobsite. Individuals who sustain serious knee injuries sometimes require a total knee replacement. If that surgery is deemend to be reasonable and medically ...

In Georgia, an injured worker is not entitled to punitive damages against his or her Employer following a work injury. Generally speaking, there are three different type of workers' compensation ...