like you perhaps??? i cannot dance for joy, as i also cannot run.
if so much as a chihuahua were to chase me down, he'd enjoy a gigantic Italian meatball...
quite a few things i cannot do anymore, due to the massive amounts of metal in me.
but life is still rather good. i am alive, my family is doing fine, and i get to the shooting range weekly, sometimes up to 3 times a week. and soon to be applying for a CCW permit.
i think that most importantly, i am grateful to this website for allowing my thread to continue, mostly untouched by others going into different directions. staying focused on the subject at hand, was appreciated.
i can NEVER stress it enough to anyone who has been following this thread, how important it is to hire a lawyer ASAP. time is of the essence as far as time limitations in many states, to hire an attorney, to file a workman's comp claim.
it would be up to the individual employee to decide to return to work at the employer where the injury got hurt, or seek a new employer.
let it be known too, that if one decides to take a settlement, you MUST resign from your job, at least here in my state you do. that and the fact that the employer may not even take you back, since you are"damaged goods", and a liability now.
in my case, my now former employer, actually went out of business in 2017, if i recall, and i found that out by accident. i wasn't even concerned or looking.
also as i have stated, by RI state law, maybe it's USA wide? the w/c lawyers are paid BY w/c, not you!
it is all free for you, the injured worker. then of course, when you do settle? they get a percentage, by law, for a set amount. here, it is 22% of the settlement.
frankly, to me, it is worth it, for all my attorney did. he had no less than 5 expandable file folders for my case. that goes to show, the many times we had to go to court, one petition after another.
one denial after another. one operation after another.
but i know the insurance company's end game....to get you to settle FAST..to be done with you...
I.DID.NOT. GIVE.UP.
i told my lawyer that i ain't about to cow down to the insurance morons. and i'm glad i stayed the course. had i settled earlier? i think that the additional operations would have been costly to me. would you think so..???
it cost the insurance company a whole lot of money, good, they deserved the BS i put them thru, in retaliation to what they did to me.
NEVER try to go it alone if you get hurt. you will be bullied