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Despite years of safety improvements, the common causes for Orange County construction site injuries have remained generally constant. Identifying those causes is not a problem, but recovering the workers’ compensation benefits you deserve on account of those injuries can be a challenge.
The construction accident lawyers at Silberman & Lam, LLP have an aggregate of more than 90 years of experience in representing injured construction workers to recover the benefits you deserve if you were hurt on the job. Beyond identifying injury causes, we show the direct connection between a cause and your injury and pursue the full amount of compensation you are entitled to receive for as long as your injury affects your ability to work and earn your regular wages.
Whether in Orange County, elsewhere in southern California, or somewhere else in the country, there are universal common causes for construction site injuries. These include:
Other injury sources include inhalation of toxic or noxious fumes, burn injuries from welding equipment or other open flame sources, back injuries from heavy or repetitive lifting, heat exhaustion, and equipment malfunctions. Consult with a workers’ compensation attorney to understand your rights if your injury arose from these or any other causes.
Injured Orange County workers can get workers’ comp benefits only if they demonstrate both medical and legal causation, meaning whether the injury is the result of a common construction site cause while on the job or some other isolated incident. Workers’ compensation insurance companies may attempt to deny benefits, for example, if the injury occurred away from a job site, even if the worker was providing remote services within their scope of employment.
Further, the worker has to show that the injury is either new or an aggravation of a pre-existing condition. If an insurer finds an event in a worker’s medical history that reveals a previous injury or condition, they may deny benefits with an argument that the workplace event is not the medical cause or exacerbation of the worker’s harm.
To help avoid these and other challenges from insurers, you could work with an experienced workers’ comp attorney from Silberman & Lam LLP for help filing and defending a request for benefits. Our attorneys will make sure that all notices are filed within applicable time limits, and prepare a benefits claim that anticipates potential challenges from insurance companies.
In addition, we review all reports from medical service providers that the insurers assign to a worker’s case to confirm that the cause of a worker’s injury is properly documented. If a claim is denied, our lawyers could also prepare and prosecute appeals, with particular attention to any errors in conclusions drawn by an insurer regarding legal and medical causation.
The workers’ compensation attorneys at Silberman & Lam LLP have in-depth knowledge of the common causes of Orange County construction site injuries. More critically, we have extensive experience in using that knowledge to get injured workers the benefits they deserve. Please call any of our offices to get the legal help you need to file a successful workers’ compensation claim.