Workers Compensation
Barkan Meizlish has been representing injured employees for fifty years. Barkan Meizlish takes great pride in providing and coordinating aggressive, high quality legal services to injured and disabled clients seeking Workers Compensation benefits across the United States.
We do not represent businesses or insurance companies - only people like you and your family. We represent employees across a wide spectrum of industries and occupations, including the airline industry, ground transportation, warehousing, manufacturing, assembly, construction, the service industry, health care and government service. As a client, you are assigned to a team consisting of an individual lawyer and a paralegal that are trained and available to help with your case.
With offices in Ohio, Florida and Louisiana, Barkan Meizlish can provide representation directly in each of those three states. Further, as part of a nationwide network of workers compensation practitioners, Barkan Meizlish can provide a referral to local counsel within a particular jurisdiction who can provide legal assistance. The attorneys we refer to provide discounted rates to union members. Barkan Meizlish’s Workers Compensation Department follows rigorous quality control procedures on all referrals.
For employees in the aviation and ground transportation industry, workers compensation can present a unique set of challenges. Workers compensation is a field that is wholly governed by state law within each of the states. Each state has differing rules on the interplay between workers’ compensation insurance, sickness and accident insurance, and, in the most serious situations, social security disability.
For pilots, flight attendants and mechanics performing field service, there may be a choice of jurisdiction in which to prosecute a workers compensation claim. The same choices may affect employees that work in ground transportation. There is a wide variation among the states with respect to statutes of limitations, caps on benefits and access to medical care. In some states, compensation may be sought for the loss of earnings, prescriptions, medical fees and therapy, care and assistance for household chores, traveling expenses, adapted transportation and vocational assistance.
An analysis of the various statutory remedies among or between the various jurisdictions should be undertaken. Barkan Meizlish provides guidance to airline industry employees and other employees on where to file claims.
Often, the choice of where to file rests entirely with the individual. Our access to a national network of providers can often quickly and conveniently provide answers to such important questions and allows the individual the ability to focus on his/her recovery from an injury, rather than becoming involved in a lengthy quest to determine under which jurisdiction the best benefits may be obtained in a given claim.
In the twenty-first century, employees experience a variety of occupational of illnesses and injuries. Our attorneys and paralegals are committed to helping you and your family when you are injured, sick or disabled.
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