{"id":3542,"date":"2015-11-25T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2015-11-10T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:34:46","slug":"settlement-issues-in-brain-injury-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/settlement-issues-in-brain-injury-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Issues in Brain Injury Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers who suffer a brain injury in North Carolina or in Virginia are entitled to worker&#8217;s compensation benefits if the injury is related to their job. Several key points a worker&#8217;s compensation lawyer will review are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What caused the injury? It is necessary to show that the injury or illness was related to work and not to some other event.<\/li>\n<li>Has the patient reached maximum medical improvement (MMI)? Until a worker reaches MMI, the worker should not consider a full settlement of his or her claim &#8211; because there is no way to know what medical complications may arise. Brain injury cases do require a lot of medical care before the patient and his\/her family can be reasonably sure that the medical condition has stabilized. Often the end of the doctor visits is really just the beginning of the medical treatment because the patient\/worker will then undergo long-term therapy. Progress in brain injury cases can be very slow.<\/li>\n<li>What type of disability does the worker really have? Is it a permanent disability or can the employee do some type of work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Before Settling a Work Injury Case, Contact Experienced Worker\u2019s Compensation Lawyer Joe Miller <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A settlement of a work-related case lasts a lifetime. Workers cannot come back and ask for more money after the case is settled. An experienced North Carolina or Virginia lawyer such a Joe Miller knows all the pitfalls. He has been representing injured workers for 25 years. Make the right settlement. Contact Lawyer Joe Miller today at <strong><a href=\"tel:\/\/888-694-1671\" title=\"888-694-1671\">888-694-1671<\/a><\/strong> and ask for me, Joe Miller, or email me at <a href=\"mailto:jmiller@joemillerinjurylaw.com\">jmiller@joemillerinjurylaw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers who suffer a brain injury in North Carolina or in Virginia are entitled to worker&#8217;s compensation benefits if the injury is related to their job. Several key points a worker&#8217;s compensation lawyer will review are: What caused the injury? It is necessary to show that the injury or illness was related to work and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Settlement Issues in Brain Injury Cases\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/settlement-issues-in-brain-injury-cases\/#more-3542\" aria-label=\"Read more about Settlement Issues in Brain Injury Cases\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[156,121],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Joe Miller","author_link":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/author\/jmiller\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Workers who suffer a brain injury in North Carolina or in Virginia are entitled to worker&#8217;s compensation benefits if the injury is related to their job. Several key points a worker&#8217;s compensation lawyer will review are: What caused the injury? It is necessary to show that the injury or illness was related to work and&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemillerinjurylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}