Phoenix Workers Compensation

Phoenix, Arizona Workers' compensation entitles you to defined medical and income benefits if you have been injured on your job. If you have experienced an injury while at work, and have lost time and wages as a result, call us now, or email us, to speak with an experienced Phoenix workers' compensation attorney, consultation is FREE.

Insurance companies are not on your side. We'll help you with all aspects of your work comp claim including:

If your claim denied unfairly
Determining your average monthly wage (insurance company usually sets low because benefits are based on the average monthly wage of worker)
Has your case been closed without a permanent impairment?
Has your case been close without medical care?
Are you getting the runaround by the insurance carrier?
It is important to protect your legal rights. Call (602) 254-6461 to speak with an attorney who will answer all your questions and provide a clear plan of action with your workers' compensation and/or social security disability claim.

If you or a loved one has been injured at work it is important to protect your legal rights. Click here to fill out our online case evaluation form.

Chris T. Johnson, P.C.
934 W McDowell Road
Phoenix, AZ 85007

Toll-Free: (800) 266-6461

Telephone: (602) 254-6461

Fax: (602) 254-0609

Email Us: law@ctj4workcomp.com

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Wage benefits are calculated based upon the average weekly wage - the wages of the employee over a period of time are totaled up and then averaged. Once that average has been calculated, the employee is typically entitled to two thirds of that average weekly wage (up to a statutory ceiling).

The second form of benefits received under workers' compensation is medical coverage. If an employee is injured on the job, he or she is entitled to reasonable and necessary hospital and medical treatment related to that injury to hopefully get him or her back on her or her feet and able to resume his or her employment. If the employee is not able to resume her or her former employment, then he or she may be entitled to rehabilitation services that will either allow him or her to return to some other form of employment or be trained in a new line of work.

A final type of compensation that the employee may be entitled to as a result of an on-the-job injury is compensation for permanent disability. Most workers' compensation acts have created a schedule in which specific disabilities are worth a certain number of weeks of wages. For instance, a person who loses a foot may be entitled to one hundred and fifty weeks of wages over and above any other benefits that he or she may receive. A person who loses an eye on the job may be entitled to an equivalent amount of compensation. Those forms of compensation are in addition to the wage loss benefits otherwise paid and any medical expenses that have been paid.

It is important to protect your legal rights. Call (602) 254-6461 to speak with a Phoenix Work Injury attorney who will answer all your questions and provide a clear plan of action with your Phoenix workers compensation and/or Phoenix social security disability claim. Call Phoenix work injury lawyer Chris T. Johnson today.

Chris T. Johnson, P.C.
934 W McDowell Road
Phoenix, AZ 85007

Telephone: (602) 254-6461
Fax: (602) 254-0609
Toll-Free: (800) 266-6461

Phoenix Work Injury Lawyer
Phoenix Work Injury Attorney

Workers' compensation is a form of insurance coverage that is designed to protect the working person in the event of injury. In a workers' compensation claim the parties involved are the injured worker, his or her employer, and the employer's workers' compensation insurance company. Before the passage of workers' compensation laws, a worker who was injured on the job was forced to file suit against his or her employer and potentially wait for months or even years before ever receiving any compensation for an injury.

As a result, the worker and his or her family may have had no income for an extended period of time because the worker was injured and unable to work. Further, the worker often was unable to pay for medical treatment. If the worker did eventually recover from the employer in a civil action, that award of money damages frequently came too late for the worker since by that point he or she was destitute and perhaps permanently impaired because of the lack of proper medical treatment.

As such, many states began passing worker's compensation laws that provided a type of compromise. Under these laws, the worker did not have to prove any fault on the part of the employer when injured, but simply had to prove that he or she was on the job and that the injury arose out of his or her employment. If those two things could be proven, then the worker was entitled to receive a portion of his or her wages for the period of time disabled and further was entitled to appropriate medical treatment related to that injury.

In return for that, the employer received immunity from a civil claim brought by the employee for the injury. That is, the employee could not file a civil action against the employer. The employee's exclusive remedy is the workers' compensation benefits.

It is important to protect your legal rights. Call (602) 254-6461 to speak with a Phoenix work injury attorney who will answer all your questions and provide a clear plan of action with your Phoenix workers compensation and/or Phoenix social security disability claim. Call Phoenix work injury lawyer Chris T. Johnson today.

Chris T. Johnson, P.C.
934 W McDowell Road
Phoenix, AZ 85007

Telephone: (602) 254-6461
Fax: (602) 254-0609
Toll-Free: (800) 266-6461