WORKERS' COMPENSATION
The road to Workers' Compensation satisfaction is filled with potholes, sharp curves and outright danger. Quite literally it is you versus two big giants: your employer and your employer's insurance company. You need a talented and experienced driver to steer you down the path.
Due to this unjust imbalance of power enjoyed by your employer and the insurance companies, most people arrive at the Adams Law Group frustrated with the process and full of questions. Fortunately we alleviate our new client's frustration by fully answering all their questions and jumping into the drivers seat. We have a very unique vision of the process. Here is why.
In 1979 Jack J. Adams, founding partner of the Adams Law Group, began a long history of dealing with employers and their large insurance companies regarding workers' compensation cases. A major hospital chain employed Jack in their risk management department. He worked for the bad guys - the very people that give our clients so many headaches. This is an advantage for you, the injured worker, because Jack got the employer's perspective and inside knowledge and the great lengths that companies go to avoid liability. This is a perspective he has passed on to all Adams Law Group employees.
TRUE and SAD STORY
While Jack was employed by this large hospital in their risk management department there was a teenage employee that died as a result of stealing a certain substance and using it in excess. The risk manager and a vice president began to investigate the issue and immediately contacted Jack, as he was the person on duty. Within a few hours Jack's preliminary investigation of the incident and report was completed and filed with management. The hospital was in trouble. His investigation revealed that the access to this substance was not even in a secured area and the devices needed to administer the substance were readily available. Jack and a few other employees had repeatedly reported this security problem to management in the months preceding the teenage employee's death.
The next day Jack returned to work and the story was a buzz in the media. Jack was ordered to not speak to anyone or he would be immediately terminated. He went to the unsecured area where the substance had been so readily available and literally overnight there appeared a secured, locking, concrete block storage building enclosing the area. The paint on the concrete blocks was scuffed and looked as if it had been built several years ago even though it was less than 24 hours old. At this point Jack reflected on his employer's admonition to not speak to anyone about the incident and he wondered if there were deeper implications of not speaking to anyone. He wondered if this could involve his personal safety.
Jack quickly copied his incident reports from a few months prior where he had documented the security problems with this area. However, the incident report filed immediatley following the news of the teenage employee's death was missing. A few days later Jack again went to view his old incident reports about the area and to his surprise found that they were all missing. Those reports never resurfaced.
The hospital's official position was that the employee broke into the secured area - an area that was in no way "secured" at his death - and stole the items in question. Jack was interviewed by a vice president of the hospital and given a gag order. Jack knew he was on the wrong side of risk management - it appeared he was working for the risk fabrication department. The management had potentially committed several criminal acts not to mention the ethical and moral laws they broke.
A few days later an investigative reporter broke the story of the cover up. The reporter quoted extensively from missing incident reports.
There were many other " risk management" stories and they all pointed Jack in one direction. Care about injured people - and the way to do that is represent them and don't believe a thing an employer or insurance company tells you about a case. After all it likely they fabricated it last night.
UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE
Jack puts this unique perspective to work for you - the injured worker as follows:
Adams Law Group believes your story
Adams Law Group knows insurance companies lie
Adams Law Group knows employers fabricate lies and sometime entire buildings
Adams Law Group believes you are injured
FREQUENTLY ASKED OUESTIONS
Workers' compensation clients always have questions. This is generally because human resources and risk management do such a great job hiding the ball from injured workers. Over the years Jack has developed a list of questions that are frequently asked . This extensive list of questions and their detailed answers will clearly address most of your inquiries. Although the answers are very detailed and cover most situations Jack encourages you to submit your case to him for analysis.
We understand workers' compensation injuries are unfortunate. We regularly handle claims involving carpal tunnel, hand and shoulder injuries, neck and back injuries, knee injuries and injuries affecting other parts of your body. We frequently encounter different types of orthopedic work related injuries as well as internal injuries and organ damage, psychiatric and neurological injuries, toxic reactions and repetitive trauma.
THREE MAJOR BENEFITS
If you have been injured on the job, you are absolutely entitled to at least three benefits under Missouri law.
- LOST WAGES
- MEDICAL TREATMENT
- MONEY SETTLEMENT
Even if you are receiving benefits now you might be getting shortchanged. Remember Jack worked for the bad guys in the risk management department of a major hospital chain - odds are you are getting less than you deserve.
YOUR NEXT STEP
It is time to put an experienced and talented Workers' Compensation lawyer to work for your rights. We can't stop them from fabricating false evidence but we sure know how to look for it. If you have been injured or think you have been injured CONTACT Jack for a free initial consultation.