Redding Workers’ Compensation Law Blog

What To Look For In A Workers’ Comp Attorney So you were injured on the job and you know you need a workers’ compensation lawyer to help you get the benefits you deserve. But how do you select the right attorney? What should you look for when making such an important choice? At Leep, Tescher, Helfman and Zanze in Redding, California, the legal team believes that most injured workers are best served by choosing someone who is: Certified as a specialist in workers’ compensation – To achieve this certification, a lawyer must pass a rigorous examination, demonstrate a high level of experience, complete at least 45 hours of continuing education and be rated favorably by his or her peers. Attorney Ben Helfman...

Between 1992 and 2017, the number of U.S. workers 55 and older has more than doubled. Yet in that same time period, the number of fatal occupational injuries among these workers rose 56%. California residents should know that this was in spite of a 17% decline in overall fatal occupational injuries. This was only the first of the many findings that the Bureau of Labor Statistics released in January 2020 in the Monthly Labor Review. The BLS found that workers 65 and older were especially dying on the job more frequently. The fatality rates were as follows: 3.4 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers overall, 4.6 per 100,000 FTE workers for those aged 55 to 64 and 10.3 per 100,000 FTE workers for...