Properly reporting a work injury in Minnesota is crucial for protecting your rights and ensuring you receive appropriate compensation. This guide covers the essential aspects of when to report, how to report, and what to say when reporting a work injury. When to...
If you've suffered a work-related injury in Minnesota, you may be eligible for vocational rehabilitation benefits. These benefits are designed to help injured workers like you return to the workforce and regain your pre-injury economic status. In this blog, we'll...
Compensation Cases If you've been injured at work in Minnesota and are seeking workers' compensation benefits, you may be asked to undergo an Independent Medical Examination (IME). Despite the term "independent," an IME is often arranged by your employer’s insurance...
Applying for Social Security Disability benefits can be a long and challenging process. You may have requested a hearing before an administrative law judge if your initial application was denied. This hearing is a crucial opportunity to present your case and...
If you've been injured on the job in Minnesota, you may be eligible for workers' compensation benefits. These benefits provide financial support while you're unable to work or are working at reduced capacity due to a work-related injury. In this blog post, we'll...
The best case scenario for a disability hearing is to have a fairly brief meeting with an administrative law judge before he or she says they’ve read the file, they’re convinced the claimant is disabled, and they’ll be paying out the case. It’s a successful end to...
One of the steps in establishing disability is proving that your medical condition prohibits you from doing the kind of jobs that you have worked in the last 5 years. Social Security will send you a Work History Report (Form SSA-3369) to collect information about the...
We are paid out of the back pay that you are awarded. If you do not win your case, we do not get paid. The amount we charge can change, similar to the amount you get monthly changes annually. Currently, attorney fees are 25% of any back payments you are due up to a...
At some point in the disability process, there is a good chance that you will receive a letter in the mail informing you that you need to attend a consultative examination. Though the exact type of exam can vary from case to case, what this basically means is that the...
Alright already! As if being sick and tired and feeling not yourself all the time, now you have to fill out pages and pages of information for Social Security…once, twice….maybe even three times?? What gives? Functional reports, work history reports, release of...