Reporting Job Injuries

The single largest factor that makes an otherwise good case a bad case is the natural reluctance of an injured worker to report an on-the-job injury. When you add that reluctance to an employer’s reluctance to learn of an on-the-job injury, you have created a situation where injury cases go unreported. Sometimes they are reported and no record of the injury was made and the employer later denies that the accident happened. Often workers try and tough it out and end up hurt worse than they thought and no way to get the help they need. Workers’ compensation insurance does not have to pay for an unreported injury and personal health insurance does not have to pay for an on-the-job injury.