Know your legal rights
If you have been injured on the job you need to know what your rights are. You should not depend on your employer or an insurance company to tell you what your rights are. Only attorneys are authorized to give you legal advice. Workers compensation laws are different in every state. Tennessee's laws regarding workers compensation have undergone changes in recent years, and these changes may effect your rights. If you have been injured on the job it is not necessary to establish fault or negligence on the part of your employer or any one else, to have the right to receive workers compensation benefits. You need to establish that the injury occurred within the course of your employment. If you are injured under these circumstances you may be entitled to benefits including: payment of your medical treatment, payment of temporary total disability benefits while you are unable to work, permanent, partial or total disability if you have a permanent injury, and life time medical benefits.

What you should do
If you have been injured on the job it is essential that you provide your employer with notice of the injury. If you need immediate medical treatment you should ask to be transported to a local hospital for emergency treatment. After you have been released from the hospital. The employer or their insurance carrier will probably contact you and ask you to select a treating physician. We recommend that you contact an attorney to advise you prior to being contacted by the insurance carrier, this is particularly important if there are serious injures involved. At our law office we work hard to make sure that you recover all the money you deserve. We provide our clients with personalized service. Upon request we can arrange to meet with you at your home or hospital.

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