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In my opinion, the best method for your attorney to attack the insurance carrier’s lowball settlement offer and support your higher offer of settlement is to undermine the evidence it claims supports its position…
After almost 40 years representing injured workers covered by the Defense Base Act (along with those covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act and Non-Appropriated Funds Instrumentalities Act), it is clear that almost every claim is resolved via a final settlement under Section 8(i) of this law. That section simply requires the application…
Federal Workers Compensation: What Do I Get And When Do I Get It, Part Two As we discussed in Part One of this article, while it may take a long time to finally get a Formal Hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), once you do get your hearing, you will get your opportunity to…
Federal Workers’ Compensation Injuries – What Do You Get and When Do You Get It? Most of our clients who suffer work-related injuries covered by the DBA (the Defense Base Act), the LHWCA (the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act) or the NAFIA (the Non-Appropriated Funds Instrumentalities Act) are so relieved to have the Soloway…
When an employee is injured at work and otherwise covered by the Defense Base Act, such that he or she is unable to do that job while receiving medical care, the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier is obligated to pay the employee wage loss benefits.