Worker’s Compensation

In Mississippi, injured employees are encouraged to notify employers within 30 days of the injury. The more prompt the notification, the faster the claims process can be completed. Once the claim has been submitted to the insurance company, the timeline should move quickly. There are times when this doesn’t happen. Delays or investigations may cause…

You’re home recovering from a workplace injury. Workers’ comp is covering your medical bills and partial wages. But your family’s beach vacation is coming up—the one you booked months ago. Can you go? Will it affect your benefits? Should you cancel and lose your deposits? At Merkel & Cocke, P.A., we’ve guided injured Mississippi workers…

Working on a farm involves significant risks, and accidents can lead to serious injuries. If you’ve been hurt in a farming accident, you might be eligible for workers’ compensation to help cover medical expenses and lost wages while you recover. Here’s a guide to filing a workers’ compensation claim for a farm accident in Mississippi.…

This may sound a bit cynical, but it is true. You do not know your true value at the workplace until you have been injured at your job. It is not until you attempt to receive workers’ compensation benefits for your injuries that you truly understand how much your injury is worth. Even if you…

Construction sites are some of the most dangerous work environments. Often full of heavy tools, heavy and large machinery, and toxic or hazardous liquids and materials, there is no end to the sources of possible injuries. One of the most common and dangerous types of injuries sustained on construction sites are burns. Not only can…

Each day millions of Americans go to work without a second thought. This is part of your routine, and you never expect to have a life-altering injury while at the workplace. However, this is far too common. According to the National Safety Council (NSC), 48,060 injuries required time off from work in 2016, with 697…

A recent insurance company study asked workers’ compensation professionals to identify the “disruptions” in their profession in 2020. Disruptions are factors that are changing the how workplace injuries happen, how they’re handled, and how the payments are affected. Healthesystems conducted a survey, during the past three years, of professionals at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability…

Not everyone has a standard nine to five job in an office with a planned, paid lunch break each day. Jobs that leave you to your own devices can give you a false sense of security if you were to become injured on the job. Why? Because not every activity during your workday is sanctioned…

Where would we be without delivery drivers? We rely on them for everything from bringing products to our businesses that enables them to run to keeping our homes stocked up with the hard to find necessities. The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone so there is also the matter of buying ourselves special items…