The insurance carrier will often try to terminate a worker’s benefits by sending the worker to have an independent medical examination. (IME) The doctors who perform these IMEs are often physicians who regularly prepare reports on behalf of insurance companies. They are used to preparing pro-employer reports and even testifying about these reports.
Settling a worker’s compensation case when a doctor says you can return to work is especially difficult – if you don’t have any family members or people who you can rely on. These workers need every dollar they can get. Workers with relatives who can help out are under less pressure to get every dollar. They can take less money to settle their claim.
When a Worker’s Compensation Medical Set-Aside Arrangement is made, the worker should know several things: The worker cannot use the money for any other work injury or for items not covered by Medicare, like dental expenses. It’s best to review what expenses Medicare does and doesn’t pay with your North Carolina Workers’ or Virginia Compensation …
In addition to using a nurse case manager and a vocational rehabilitation counselor to try to terminate your workers’ compensation benefits, there are other indirect tricks the insurance carrier for the employer will try.
The employee is entitled to be reimbursed for expenses incurred in meeting with and complying with the Vocational Rehabilitation Officer. This includes mileage costs to see the VCR for rehabilitation meetings and the mileage cost to attend interviews, obtain and return applications
The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission has many guidelines for the Nurse Case Manager counsel regarding the medical treatment of the employee. These guidelines hold that:
The employee is entitled to hire an attorney to represent his worker’s compensation cases. Our firm strongly suggests every claimant have qualified Virginia legal Workers Compensation counsel. The Guidelines from the Virginia Worker’s Compensation Commission directly address the role of the employee’s attorney as follows:
The Virginia Guidelines for meetings between the employee and the vocational rehabilitation counselor are regulated as follows:
There are many reasons why an employee may ask to reschedule a meeting with the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. The employee can be ill, there can be a family function or matter to attend to, the employee may not have transportation to the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VCR) that day. On occasion, the employee may forget about the meeting.
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