When will workers’ comp offer settlement?

This video reviews when workers’ compensation may offer settlement. If you are an injured worker with a California injury, and don’t have an attorney, this video is intended to help provide an overview of workers’ compensation topics so you can better represent yourself.

In workers’ compensation, most every case will end with a settlement. The question then becomes, when? The bottom line is that settlement can occur at any time. It is more difficult to settle early on in the case as there are so many variables that you as an unrepresented injured worker may not want to come down to what insurance is offering, and insurance may not be willing to come up to what you are demanding. Plus, without an attorney, and early in the case, it can be very difficult to properly value a case. Is it worth $5,000 or $50,000? Depending on the facts, $5,000 may be a high value, or $50,000 may be too low. Plus, once you come to an agreement, you need to get it approved by a judge, and that judge will need to find adequacy in the settlement documents and the medical reporting.

Jeremy Lusk is a certified specialist in workers’ compensation with almost two decades of experience, and previously served as a Judge at the Fresno District Office of the WCAB. He has worked out of Fresno, but appeared at numerous Boards to represent both injured workers and employers/carriers.

No attorney/client relationship is created or implied by this video. This video is not offering legal advice as to what you should, or should not, do in your workers’ compensation case, but rather offers education/information as to the California workers’ compensation system for unrepresented workers so they can better represent themselves and make more informed decisions.

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