Matt Fendon Law Group Legal Blog
If you’ve been injured at work, you have a lot to deal with. Not only do you have to work on healing, but you have to figure out your financial and work situation. To help you make it through this…
Dealing with the effects of a workplace injury is a stressful experience. However, returning to work after an injury is an equally stressful journey. The decision-making process only intensifies when you feel like you’re being pressured to return, even if…
Does your Social Security Disability attorney properly prepare for the hearing? At Matt Fendon Law Group (MFLG), we are a client-focused Workers’ compensation and disability law firm. What this means is in preparing for a Social Security disability hearing, we put the…
My employer said they would take care of me. Unfortunately, this is not accurate. When you are injured on the job in the state of Arizona, you need to promptly do the following three things: file an injury report with…
If you suffer an industrial injury and have previously been hurt on the job with a permanent impairment, your new injury may become what we call an “unscheduled” disability. In Arizona, that means that if your second injury causes you…
If you are injured on the job in Arizona, and are taken off work, or put on light duty for at least seven days, there is a strong probability that the workers’ compensation insurance carrier will issue a Recommended average…
If you have an open Arizona workers’ compensation case, and you are on a light duty status per your doctor, there is a chance that you have returned to work with the employer you were working for when you were…
We received many calls about the condition post Trumatic stress disorder a.k.a. PTSD. This is a real condition that affects many Arizonans. PTSD can be a covered condition under the Arizona workers’ compensation act as long as the injured worker…
Employment Law Tip of the Day – The Equal Pay Act prevents employers from paying workers of one sex at wage rate different from that paid to workers of the opposite sex for equal work. It applies to most employers….
If my contract of employment says I’m an independent contractor and I’m injured on the job am I eligible for benefits? The easy answer to that is “it depends.” Often, employers in Arizona will try to categorize injured workers as…
