You would not believe some of the outrageous statements made to my clients from their supervisors after reporting a work injury:
- “Workers compensation only covers back injuries” (no, it covers any injury part of your body)
- “you must report your on the job injury within 3 hours” (no, you have 30 days to report your injury)
- “it doesn’t matter that you were unconscious/disoriented due to a concussion/in an ambulance – whatever you said or didn’t say immediately after your accident controls what you can pursue under workers comp” (no, you are not bound by statements made when you are not in your right mind)
This is just a taste of the misinformation I have heard about over the past 30 years.
The truth is that workers’ compensation in Georgia is extremely adversarial. Other than divorce law, I doubt that any area of the law is a bruising and contested as work injury law. [Read more…] about How to Protect Yourself from False Information About Your Workers’ Compensation Claim