This complete guide for injured workers in California will help injured workers get medical treatment with their own doctor or find another, file claims on time, deal with claims adjusters who don’t want to pay benefits, and get a lump-sum settlement for the highest amount possible.
Have you been injured on the job? Are you in pain and need help? The Texas workers compensation system will not help you unless you stand up for your rights as an injured employee. This book will guide you through the entire process, step by step and show you how get the medical care and pay you deserve. Written by an injured worker who fought the system for years and won, you will learn what the insurance companies do not want you to know. Your rights as an injured worker.
Attorney William W. Crossett has represented injured workers throughout Central New York since 1982. Mr. Crossett is the managing partner of Meggesto, Crossett & Valerino, LLP, known as MCV Law, comprised of lawyers, talented paralegals and helpful staff who have expertise in handling cases arising from accidents occurring on the job or sicknesses or illness that arise as a result of exposures from work. Additionally, MCV Law handles personal injury cases, auto accidents, labor law claims, and social security disability cases both associated with workplace injuries and other negligence.Mr. Crossett is a graduate of Syracuse University and DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He has served as President of the Injured Workers' Bar Association of New York, the Central New York Workers' Compensation Bar Association, as well as Chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Workers' Compensation.Mr. Crossett has been recognized by Super Lawyers, as a fellow in the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers, and maintains a high Avvo rating.Mr. Crossett thanks his law partners, Gary Valerino and Kimberly Slimbaugh, his associates, Christopher Stringham and Bethany Nicoletti and his talented paralegals and assistants for their support in completing this book.Mr. Crossett resides in Central New York with his wife, Susan. They have two adult children. Mr. Crossett spends his summers on the shores of Lake Ontario.
Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnelâ€"and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.
As the debate over health care reform continues, costs have become a critical measure in the many plans and proposals to come before us. Knowing costs is important because it allows comparisons across such disparate health conditions as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and cancer. This book presents the results of a major study estimating the large and largely overlooked costs of occupational injury and illness--costs as large as those for cancer and over four times the costs of AIDS. The incidence and mortality of occupational injury and illness were assessed by reviewing data from national surveys and applied an attributable-risk-proportion method. Costs were assessed using the human capital method that decomposes costs into direct categories such as medical costs and insurance administration expenses, as well as indirect categories such as lost earnings and lost fringe benefits. The total is estimated to be $155 billion and is likely to be low as it does not include costs associated with pain and suffering or of home care provided by family members. Invaluable as an aid in the analysis of policy issues, Costs of Occupational Injuryand Illness will serve as a resource and reference for economists, policy analysts, public health researchers, insurance administrators, labor unions and labor lawyers, benefits managers, and environmental scientists, among others. J. Paul Leigh is Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis. Stephen Markowitz, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School. Marianne Fahs is Director of the Health Policy Research Center, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University. Philip Landrigan, M.D., is Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.