Getting into a workplace accident comes with enough stress as it is, without having to worry abo9ut what you need to do. Hence what brought about this concise guide for those looking to uncover the best way to file for their California worker’s compensation claim.

The fact is, someone needed to cut through the non-sense to get to the point, what better time than right this freaking minute?

The Basics of Getting Workers’ Compensation

1. First things first, you want to make sure that you do not put your claim of entering a stage of disqualification, and one of the top reasons this happens is failure to file the claim within thirty (30) days of the workplace accident or at the time of finding out that an illness was caused by one’s occupation.

Hence, you will see that it is advised that you report any incident at once. Know that waiting will not help improve your odds, regardless of what it may seem like. Waiting has only proven to end up complicating the process even further if not messing it up in its entirety.

2. If your employer wants you to see a doctor of their choosing, or within their network as they sometimes refer to it as, you will not want to ignore doing this. Unless otherwise told to you by your legal counsel that you do different, and your legal counsel only.

Everyone has the right to a second opinion if they do not agree with the findings of the physician attending to one’s care initially. Of course, there is a process to doing this when there is a worker’s comp claim involved, so make yourself aware of it ahead of time.

Your employer should have provided you with a form referred to as DWC-01, which you will need to fill out so that it can get filed with the proper agency tasked with the regulation and validation of any workplace accidents and the reimbursement paid to those rightfully entitled to it.

Do I need to obtain legal counsel for California Workers’ Compensation?

This is not meant, nor is it to be considered legal advice, as only an experienced and licensed attorney-at-law is the only that can provide you with such. If you expect there to be a dispute with your employer about whether you are due reimbursement for an illness/injury, you will want to have competent legal counsel to back your defense and see to it that the outcome is a fair one.

This does not mean there are not times when employees do not have a need for a lawyer, and they are able to complete the process and be more focused on recovery sooner than … Read the rest