How Much Is My Workers’ Compensation Case Worth?

I’m often asked how much a workers’ compensation case is worth. The answer is that it is impossible to know until the case is fully documented and the doctors have indicated what the level of disability is.

It Starts With Your Medical Treatment

Once the medical treatment is completed and the doctors have indicated what the disability level is, it is only then that you can fully evaluate the benefits that are owed for permanent disability.

Future Medical Care

In addition to permanent disability, you may also be entitled to future medical care. Insurance companies often want to close future medical care and offer a lump sum to do that. But until a physician has completed care, it is difficult to estimate what the future medical care needs may be and what their potential value is.

Many people here in Orange County that I’ve talked to would prefer to leave their future medical care open just in case they need to access care in the future. There is often an offer by the workers’ compensation carrier to close out future medical care for a lump sum.

Every Case Is Different

Every case is different and as unique as the injured worker, and everyone suffers injury in different ways. Insurance companies resist having the nature of the claim and the effects on health fully documented by delaying care and frustrating the injured worker to the point where they just give up and want to settle the case for anything they can get.

Understanding that dynamic means that having an attorney making certain that the case is fully documented, so you get what you deserve, nothing more, nothing less, is necessary.

If you have suffered a work injury in Orange County and would like further specific information regarding your potential claim, feel free to give me a call at (714) 547-5025.