An important question you might find yourself asking is “How do I hire a competent and respected workers’ compensation lawyer?”   You might even find yourself asking “Does it really matter?”  The answer is “yes”.  Lawyers differ.  Hiring the right lawyer makes a difference.  Hiring a lawyer that dabbles in workers’ compensation or one who churns many cases quickly for pennies on the dollar to make a quick buck is devastating to the value of your case.

When hiring a workers’ compensation lawyer, ask the following:

a)  How many years have they have devoted their practice to representing injured workers in workers’ compensation cases?  This, of course, assumes they have devoted their practice to workers’ compensation.  If you needed surgery, you would rather hire a surgeon who has performed that surgery a thousand times as opposed to a surgeon who has performed one thousand different surgeries one time.

b) How many workers’ compensation cases they have handled, and how many cases they have appealed to the Commonwealth Court or to the Supreme Court?

c)  How often awards for penalties and attorney fees for unreasonable contest are obtained on behalf of their clients?

c) Is the lawyer’s web site and conversations with you educational?

d) Research how they are recognized by peers.

e) Most importantly, get a sense of WHY have they have chosen to represent injured workers.  Intent affects results.

If you have questions regarding your workers’ compensation benefits, it is important that you have an experienced Harrisburg workers’ compensation attorney on your side.

Call Calhoon & Associates at 877-291-9675, for more information.

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