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Workers' Compensation And Your Rights To Recovery Do You Know What Benefits You Are Entitled To? At Schwartz Law Firm LLC, we will protect your rights throughout the process of notifying your employer, filing your claim for benefits, getting the medical care you need and securing the full benefit...

Employer-Paid Job Training After A Disabling Work Injury After a serious work injury, you may have to adapt to a different type of job. Some people take on light-duty work or office work. Some transition to management or other roles. Schwartz Law Firm LLC will help you determine what job you may ...

You should not decide whether to take a lump-sum workers' compensation settlement without the advice of an experienced workers' comp lawyer in Louisiana. There are pros and cons, and it may or may not be in your secure interests depending on the nature of your injuries and other factors. Schwartz...

Many people watched with awe in the 1990s as shuttle astronauts floated in zero-gravity space. Back on earth, gravity is not always so amusing. Gravity is one the chief factors in work injuries – when workers fall themselves and when workers are struck by falling objects from above. When we fall ...

In the science fiction classic “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov, all robots are hardwired to obey orders, to never harm humans and to sacrifice themselves if necessary to keep humans safe. The plot twists are about humans coming to harm anyway despite those secure intentions of the robots' creators. In...

Thousands of injuries could be prevented. Employees who operate and maintain workplace machinery are at high risk for injury or death. According to industry statistics, machinery accidents cause about 800 deaths a year and 18,000 injuries, ranging from lacerations and abrasions to amputations and...

Ceremony and safety reminder Apr. 28 in Baton Rouge More than 4,000 American workers die on the job each year – about 10 work-related deaths every day – and another 4 million employees are injured or become sick at work. In Louisiana alone there are about 25 work-related fatalities each year. Wor...

Temp workers and part-timers are covered, but independent contractors are not Nearly all Louisiana employers must provide workers' compensation insurance. But a growing number of jobs do not fit the traditional employer-employee paradigm. Freelancers and people who piece together a living from “g...

This could be bad news for workers' comp back injury claims The epidemic of opioid addiction has caused the medical community to re-think how lower back pain is treated. Rather than prescribing narcotics and bed rest, a growing number of physicians now advise patients to stay active and forego pa...

State law protects anyone injured on the job. There is much talk these days of building walls and deporting people. Much resentment of immigrants and “foreigners.” Especially those living in the U.S. without government permission. This is a scary time for undocumented workers. Especially for an “...

Who pays damages when an intoxicated person causes a crash? From police shootings and terrorist attacks to opioid overdoses and beloved celebrities, the headlines of 2016 have been a steady roll call of untimely and tragic deaths. Lost in that mix is an alarming increase in drunk driving deaths a...

Are you hiring a ride in a four-wheeled time bomb? Millions of cars on American roads are subject to recall for various defects – serious safety issues that the owners have not had fixed. An independent investigation found that drivers for hire have a much higher rate of unfixed recall notices. A...

We've made progress, but we can do better. Work-related deaths and injuries in the U.S. are about one-third of what they were in 1970, thanks largely to OSHA and state safety programs. Despite great progress, an average of 13 American workers still die on the job every day and hundreds more suffe...