Injuries on the job
Miami, Florida Workplace Injury Lawyer
An accident at workplace can lead to significant interruption in your daily routine. In most cases, it may result in a lot of pain, stress, lost wages, and uncertainty. A job helps an individual earn a livelihood.
Sometimes, negligence of someone else at workplace might result in serious loss of work and wages. Under such situations, you are eligible for compensation. This benefit is usually given in addition to the workers’ comp benefits.
You can know more about these injuries through our Injury Attorneys. In case, you have sustained an injury at work, the attorney may help you obtain work comp benefits, SSI or vocational rehabilitation.
Call us for scheduling your free consultation at 305-771-3374 or fill out the case evaluation form today.
Workplace Injuries
The injury attorneys at the Law Office of Garcia Hernandez, P.A. will assist you if you have been injured due to the following conditions:
- Negligence by Third Party
- Construction Accidents
- Employer Negligence
Workers’ Compensation
Workplace injuries may range from small bruises to painful sprains, burns, serious injuries, and life threatening conditions. These injuries might require advanced surgeries, expensive hospitalization affecting job and daily earnings of an employee, or even loss of life. Injuries at job might include:
- Burns
- Back injuries
- Electrical shocks
- Severe laceration (cut)
- Spinal cord injury
- Hearing loss
- Eye injury
- Wrongful death
- Broken bones
- Injuries of arm, shoulder, wrist or elbow
- Whiplash
- Paralysis
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Slip and fall
- Amputation
- Other injuries
How Do Workplace Injuries Happen?
Injury at work may happen anywhere. It may occur at a construction site, office, restaurant, hotel, or a job site where individuals work for earning a living. The cause of accidents may be many. The most common ones include:
- Failure to follow proper rules and procedures
- Hazardous/Unsafe working conditions
- Insufficient training and/or supervision
- Damaged or faulty parts or products
- A car accident while driving vehicle of a company
- A negligent subcontractor
- Negligent business
Compensation Laws for Florida Workers
Under the Florida Law, most employers must provide worker’s compensation to employees who get injured while on the job. Also referred to as “work comp” or “workers’ comp”, Workman’s compensation provides for lost wages and medical bills. On the other hand, if a third party (not your employer) is responsible for your injury, then you are eligible to file a claim for compensation. This compensation will be additional to benefits availed under your workers’ comp benefits and social security disability.
Third-Party Negligence Claims
This may occur under the following conditions:
- A product is defective
- A product is faulty
- If you get injured on someone else’s property due to unsafe/hazardous conditions
- If you get injured negligence of a contractor
Under a third-party negligence claim, you can file a suit against the negligent third-party (the seller/manufacturer of the defective/unsafe equipment, the owner of the property/site where the accident occurred, against another contractor/company whose employee was responsible for your accident.
Workplace Injury Lawyer – How will You Benefit?
The Workers’ Compensation offers assistance to employees unable to work due to injury inflicted at workplace. At the Law Office of Garcia Hernandez, P.A. we help clients get benefits they require to heal well and rebuild their life. Our work compensation lawyers can help you with the same:
Appeal for claims denied by employer and represent your case in court
- File a third-party negligence claim
- Recuperate lost wages
- File for social security disability benefits
- Get a medical or doctor test
Schedule a Free Consultation With Workplace Injury Lawyer
Have you suffered an injury at work? Our lawyers can help you receive the compensation you require for paying bills (medications, hospitalization) and take care of your family. Get in touch with us today. We will schedule a confidential and free consultation session.