Category Archives: Workers Compensation

In Maryland, workers’ compensation provides essential benefits to employees who suffer from work-related injuries or illnesses. However, sometimes a workers’ compensation claim may be denied, leaving the employee wondering what to do next. If this has happened to you, here are some steps you can take to try to reverse the decision. Understand why your […]

A concussion is a form of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). While called “mild,” a concussion can have serious effects and can result in numerous challenges for victims over the following weeks or months.A concussion can result from any type of trauma to the head. When you hit your head or something hits you, your brain […]

You may not ever be fully healed from your work-related injury, but there will come a day when your treatment is over. This is when you’ve reached Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI). Your MMI date is an important milestone in your workers’ compensation case. What is Maximum Medical Improvement? Once a doctor tells you that you […]

If you suffer work-related injuries, the Maryland workers’ compensation law allows you to take action against your employer.  In order for an injury to be recoverable, the following elements must be met: You must be an employee You must work for an eligible employer You must have experienced an accidental injury or occupational disease; and […]

Maryland’s workers’ compensation laws provide compensation for on-the-job injuries.  It provides a system for relatively efficient compensation for medical bills and lost wages. Workers’ compensation claims, however, fail to take into account the pain and suffering the injury has caused. This means that in a workers’ compensation case you may not be getting the total […]