How to File a Claim

Yes. However, the reason for your termination cannot be related to your injury or because you filed or requested to file a workers’ compensation claim. You can be laid off while you have a workers’ compensation claim, but you cannot be laid off because you are injured or have been injured, or because you are […]

That depends on many factors. First, your employer has 90 days to accept or deny your claim. Your employer does not have to pay you anything, including temporary disability, until it accepts your claim. However, during the first 90 days after you file a claim, until your employer denies your claim, it must pay for

Your employer contacts its insurance carrier and reports the claim to them. That insurance carrier will send you letters, including a medical release, and may contact you to take your statement. The medical release, if you sign it and send it back, allows the insurance carrier to obtain your medical records from your doctors. It

Usually, yes. In some cases, you can pre-designate a treating doctor. Pre-designation must be done before you are injured. In most cases your employer controls your medical treatment for the first 30 days, which means you have to go to the doctor you are assigned for the first 30 days. After the first 30 days

You should inform your immediate supervisor. Generally, your supervisor will either file the claim for you or inform those higher up in the company to do so. If nothing happens, you should report your injury to your company’s Human Resources Department or your manager.

Yes. If you do not inform your employer and file a claim, you may be time barred from doing so in the future. If your employer knows that you have been injured at work, they should file a claim for you. However, they might simply give you a claim form and ask you to fill