Back injuries that occur on the job are the most common type of injury claimed by employees under the Georgia workers’ compensation system. This is not surprising since a back injury can occur when you are lifting, carrying, pushing or stooping. You can also injury your back when you slip on a wet floor, or if you fall off a ladder or scaffold.
Whatever the reason for your injury, if you hurt your back while working you are automatically covered by your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance. Your employer does not have the option to “opt out” of workers’ compensation coverage.
Once you report your on-the-job injury to your employer, a workers’ compensation insurance company will get involved and this is where you may begin seeing problems.
You are Only a Number to the Insurance Company
Even if you are a long time employee, cherished by your boss and treated like a member of the family, your employer’s insurance company will see you only as a number and a cost that they need to keep down. Many of our clients have expressed frustration and anger at the disrespect showed to them by their employer’s insurance company. [Read more…] about Back Pain Claims Under Georgia Workers’ Compensation Law – Avoid the Runaround