Albany Workers' Compensation Claim Lawyers

Georgia’s workers’ compensation laws are designed to help employees who get injured on the job by helping to cover medical expenses and providing wage benefits. Understanding these benefits can ensure you get the support you need during recovery.

Railroad employees deserve to work in a safe environment. However, working for a railroad is demanding and can be dangerous. An employee of a railroad company faces significant dangers each shift around the yard when loading freight, moving cars or repairing an engine. Also, operating the train is fraught with hazards such as derailment, collisions, fires, and inhalation of toxic fumes.

Workers’ compensation programs exist in order to provide protections for individuals who suffer from work-related injuries. The laws related to workers’ compensation vary from state to state. In general, these programs cover the medical costs associated with work-related injuries, and some wage replacement for employees who miss work as a result of their injury or illness.

Were you or a loved one injured in a car accident by someone who was driving a company vehicle in Georgia? If so, the company might be liable to you for damages because of the company’s own wrongdoing under the legal doctrine of negligent entrustment. Pursuing a theory of negligent entrustment might help you recover damages from the company which owned or leased the vehicle involved in the crash that injured you.

Vehicle accidents are responsible for 40 percent of all workplace deaths in the state of Colorado, according to an online news report published at denverpost.com. A data review of workers’ compensation claims by company Pinnacol Assurance found that these accidents are the highest cause of worker deaths in Colorado.*

The doctrine of continuous employment is most often used in cases involving traveling employees. Georgia courts have clarified that these types of injury cases will only be compensable if the employee was traveling for business purposes, the injury occurred during the time he or she was employed, and the injury occurred at a place where he or she was reasonably in the performance of employment.

According to the Summer 2017 Workers’ Compensation Law Newsletter (p. 4), the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation developed a new procedure last year for expediting needed medical treatment on behalf of workers’ compensation claimants.*

According to the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation under O.C.G.A. §35-9-81.1 and found at sbwc.georgia.gov, the following summarizes workers’ rights thereunder:

According to the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation under O.C.G.A. §35-9-81.1 and found at sbwc.georgia.gov, the following summarizes an employee’s obligations thereunder:

Most people are familiar with carbon monoxide. They know carbon monoxide, CO, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. Carbon monoxide sometimes mixes with other gases which can be perceived through the senses. However, you will not know that CO is a component of the gas mixture. To that extent, carbon monoxide is a silent killer — especiallyin an industrial workspace.