Nashville Workers’ Compensation Attorney

If you are injured on the job, and a medical physician has determined that your work injury is causally related to your work accident or activities, then you might be entitled to Workers’ Compensation. A worker’s comp lawyer at Reasonover Law Firm helps victims of workplace accidents obtain the legal relief they deserve. We can file a workers’ comp case and help you recover the maximum compensation for a job-related injury.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics records thousands of workplace injuries each year. By definition, these are injuries that are sustained when you are in the course and scope of performing your work duties.

The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation enforces strict deadlines and procedural requirements, such as providing written notice to your employer within 15 or 30 days. At Reasonover Law Firm, we will ensure that you are in full compliance with these rules and leave no stone unturned in preparing the evidence for hearings before the Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims.

1. Report the injury to your employer in writing promptly.
2. File a claim with the Bureau if benefits are denied.
3. Request hearings before the Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims if needed.
4. Navigate appeals through the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.

At Reasonover Law Firm, we understand how difficult it can be for a family when a workplace injury has resulted in loss of income. We also know that insurance companies can be difficult when it comes to providing workers’ comp benefits. To claim worker’s comp benefits, a worker must give notice of their injury to his or her employer in writing within 30 days of the injury. So it’s important that you act quickly!

There are many ways that an employee can sustain an on-the-job injury. It is also common for employees to have pre-existing medical conditions and suffer an aggravation of their pre-existing condition due to a work accident or work activities.

As workers’ compensation attorneys, we represent people who might be entitled to Workers’ Compensation benefits. We can help walk you through the process and will fight to get you what you deserve.

Every day, Tennessee workers are injured in workplace accidents, most frequently in manufacturing, transportation, and foodservice. But it doesn’t matter where you work or what you do – job related risks are inevitable. Common workplace accidents that lead to injury and can result in a workers’ comp case include the following:

• Slip and Falls
• Auto Accidents
• Runaway Trailers
• Exposure to Toxins
• Electrocution & Burns
• Equipment Malfunction
• Scaffold Collapse
• Hazardous Fumes Release

In Tennessee, employers are required by law to carry insurance for workers’ compensation. This coverage protects the employer from liability and helps an injured employee meet their personal financial obligations while experiencing lost income as the result of an injury.

Workers’ Comp can include medical expenses, temporary total disability benefits, temporary partial disability benefits, permanent total or partial disability benefits, and death benefits. This covers all necessary and reasonable medical expenses for the duration of your injury. The amount of compensation is determined by the type and severity of the injury sustained.

Whether an injury was caused by the worker or employer, our workers’ comp lawyers can help seek the benefits you are entitled to, such as:

• Lost Income
• Medical Expenses
• Lost sense or Loss of Cognition
• Loss of Limb or Body Part
• Death or Survivor Benefits
• Future Surgery and Therapy
• Permanent Scars or Disfigurement
• Vocational Training and/or Rehabilitation
• Mileage and Parking for Medical Care