Workers’ Compensation Lawsuits

 Do I have a case?

Do you have a workers' comp lawsuit?

Worst case scenario: You’re injured at work. You’re in constant pain. You’re worried about supporting your family and paying your bills. You’re mobility is limited. You cannot focus. Your family is stressed out. You wonder if life will ever return to normal again.

You are not alone.

Being injured at work can be devastating to individuals and their families. In this swirl of painful chaos, the first thing you should do is hire a lawyer.

Why? It doesn’t matter if your employer is taking care of you today. It doesn’t matter if the insurance adjustor appears to be your new best friend. Your employer and its insurance company have one goal in mind – to see that you receive workers’ compensation for the shortest amount of time possible. What will you do when your new best friend stops returning your phone calls and stops sending checks?

Your employer’s insurance company immediately retained investigators, medical manager experts, and surveillance technicians. If you said anything at all to the insurance company, it will come back to haunt you. Look over your shoulder; someone is watching you and they won’t pick you up when you stumble.

Hiring a lawyer means that when you stumble, someone is there to support you and be in your corner to fight the mountain of evidence that has already been amassed about you.

By hiring a lawyer from Shor, Levin & DeRita, you can be assured that the firm has handled thousands of workers’ compensation cases. Sometimes they can extend your workers’ compensation benefits with just a phone call but more often, it requires a petition and a court battle.

That sounds expensive and you’re already worried about money problems. STOP worrying! It costs you nothing to hire a workers’ compensation lawyer at Shor, Levin & DeRita. When your case is settled, our law firm receives 20 percent of your claim which is the standard for workers’ compensation cases in Pennsylvania.

The one thing you don’t want to ever do is think that you or your spouse can handle your workers’ compensation claim and keep all the money. First of all, if you do-it-yourself, you will receive far less of a settlement, if at all. Most likely you’re already in pain with limited mobility and really stressed out.

What do you know from stacks of papers filled with legal mumble jumble? Papers need to be filed; experts need to be consulted; and evidence needs to be gathered. Hiring a law firm with 30 years of workers’ compensation experience makes good sense. Shor, Levin & DeRita knows the nuances of workers’ compensation law. They know the adjustors, the insurance companies, and the judges who will hear the case. They know how far to push and what to emphasize. This is why they are well worth the 20 percent fee.

Compensation is based on your future ability to return to work or being disabled and never being able to return to work. The path to settling a workers’ compensation is a complex legal maze that if navigated alone, you will probably make a mistake or three along the way. Mistakes are not generally tolerated nor treated lightly by bureaucracies and the Pennsylvania Commonwealth.

If Shor, Levin & DeRita takes your case, they are financially committed to you winning. The firm may invest in your case by paying a doctor for a deposition or hiring medical, scientific, or industrial experts. If you don’t win your case, the firm doesn’t get paid. Shor, Levin & DeRita never thinks about losing your case.

Contact Shor, Levin & DeRita for a free consultation today!

Bulldogs are a tenacious breed and so is BulldogLawyers.com. The earlier and complementing web site focuses strictly on workers’ compensation cases with a straight forward focus by leveling with the client and answering the hard questions, by establishing contact and keeping the client in the loop, and most importantly – by keeping the heat on the insurance company. Shor, Levin & DeRita practices those same principles.