The reason for a Medical Set-Aside (MSA) is to prevent a double recovery. Simply, the federal government, through its Medicare program, believes that your worker’s compensation benefits are the primary source for payment of worker related injury expenses. Medicare wants to make sure injured workers are not paid twice, once by Workers’ Compensation carrier and …
Part and parcel of any settlement calculation of a workers’ compensation claim is figuring the costs of future medical care. Ideally, the calculations will be perfect and the money the insurance company pays for your medical care matches what you actually need during your lifetime. Often, though, the calculation is not correct and you end …
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:
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If you are looking at this site, you or a loved one has probably been hurt. If that's true, you've come to the right place. Helping people who have been hurt is what we do. In fact, it is all we do. Joe Miller Law is a law firm concentrating exclusively on representing people who are injured by the carelessness of others or those hurt on the job. We provide the highest quality legal services to people who have been seriously injured. We practice Personal Injury law and Workmens' Compensation law in both Virginia and North Carolina.
