Workers Compensation

Alabama Workers' Compensation Lawyers

When you are too injured to work, how can you pay your medical bills, rent or mortgage, and living expenses?

If you have been hurt at work, you may be able to receive workers' compensation benefits to cover your medical treatment and a portion of your wages. For a free initial consultation and case evaluation, contact a workers' comp attorney at Hornsby, Watson, Hornsby, Blackwell & McKown in Huntsville, Alabama, today. We can help you receive the workers' comp benefits you deserve.

Most Alabama employers pay into the state's workers' compensation insurance program to protect workers who are injured in work-related accidents. If you are covered by the workers' compensation program, you can receive coverage for injury-related medical treatment and weekly payments for 66 2/3 percent of your weekly wages.

To qualify for workers' compensation, your injury must have happened while you were at work or performing work-related duties. Workers injured in an on-the-job accident must give notice of the accident to their employer immediately after the accident. Next, they need to ask their supervisor or employer to provide a doctor to treat the work-related injury.

The physician will determine the extent of your injuries and when you are sufficiently recovered to return to work. Our law firm often sees clients who remain too injured to work yet have been certified by the physician as physically able to resume their duties.

We stand up for the rights of injured workers and help them receive the benefits they are entitled to receive. We represent workers' compensation clients on a contingency basis, so you will pay no attorneys' fees unless we win compensation for you. In addition, attorneys' fees are fixed by the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations, so it won't cost you more to retain the services of an experienced and effective law firm like Hornsby, Watson, Hornsby, Blackwell & McKown. If you have questions about workers' comp, please don't hesitate to contact us today.

To learn more, visit our workers' compensation information center.

From offices in Huntsville, Alabama, the attorneys of Hornsby, Watson, Hornsby, Blackwell & McKown represent clients in the communities of Athens, Decatur, Guntersville, and throughout the state.