We are Laywers specializing in Roofer Work Comp Injury Cases in Missouri.

Workers Compensation Injury Lawyers for Injured Roofers

Roofers suffer some of the most debilitating injuries while on the job of all workers given the serious and dangerous nature of their work.  Typical injuries include broken legs, broken backs, fractures of all types, and brain injuries caused by falls from great heights, and cuts and amputations from knives and box cutters.

Roofers are also subject to injury caused by dangerous and potentially defective equipment.  Injury can also be caused as a result of the company taking proper safety precautions and use of safety equipment.  Injuries are also caused by the malfunction of equipment and negligent operation of equipment.  Determining the cause of malfunction and negligence in roofer injuries can often be complex and we often have to hire experts and professionals to help determine the negligent parties and hold responsible those whose negligence caused injury to an employee.

Because of the repetitive nature of some roofing work, repetitive motion and carpal tunnel injuries can develop in Roofers.  Injuries can also be caused by heavy lifting potentially resulting in damage to spinal discs and back and neck muscles.  

We have provided legal counsel and effective representation to Roofers experiencing problems obtaining needed medical treatment, loss of income and need for disability payments resulting from their work injury.  Our Firm will provide you a complete understanding of your legal rights and purse all necessary legal actions for you to obtain full and complete compensation for your injuries.      

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm takes injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you will only pay attorney's fees if we obtain compensation for you. For a free consultation with a lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900 or contact us online.

Payments for Lost Wages (Temporary Total Disability or TTD)

The second benefit available to a worker injured at work in Missouri is payment for lost salary or wages for the time that he or she is unable to work because of the injury (i.e., Lost Wages Because of a Work Injury).

For time off of work for an injury, you as an injured employee are able to receive what the law calls payment for your Temporary Total Disability (TTD) for such time that you are not able to work.  The weekly amount payable is typically based on your average weekly wage for the 13 weeks leading up to the day you were hurt.  This amount is typically 2/3 of the your average weekly wage over those 13 weeks leading up to the injury, up to the statutory weekly limit. These disability payments for lost wages are not taxable.  The idea is that you get more or less what you would have gotten after taxes.

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm accepts injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you only pay attorney's fees if we get you compensation. For a free consultation with a lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900, or contact us online.

We are Missouri Workers Compensation Lawyers who specialize in a variety of work-related injuries.

Missouri Lawyers for Injured Workers 

The Hein Law Firm represents workers injured in all areas and industries.  The following is representative of but some of the types of injured workers we have and do represent every day in our practice.  If you have been injured on the job, we can help you even if you work in a job or industry that is not on this list:

We have extensive experience in all of these as well as other matters.  We have handled cases involving loss of the use of a body part due to numbness or other damage and injuries that led to partial or complete paralysis of the victim.  We have successfully resolved cases involving injuries such as slip and falls, lower back injuries from heavy lifting, herniated discs, whiplash and head and neck injuries.

Our experience allows us to pursue the right settlement and the necessary benefits to accommodate your current and future needs.  We have a good understanding of the types of injuries that can occur and the amount of time it can take for recovery which allows us to be proactive in fighting for the compensation and benefits you need.

We will look at the injured body part and medical evidence to determine how to obtain full and complete recovery in your particular case.  Call for a Free Initial Consultation.

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm takes workers compensation injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you will only pay attorney's fees if we obtain compensation for you. For a free consultation with a Missouri Work Comp Lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900 or contact us online.
 
     

Medical Payments Under Missouri Work Comp

The first benefit, which in many ways is the most important benefit, which is available under the Missouri Workers Compensation Law to an injured worker who has suffered a workers compensation injury in Missouri is the right to have his or her medical bills paid for by the employer for reasonable and necessary medical treatment.  What this means is that you get the Medical Bills paid because of a Work Injury. 

As an injured worker, you are entitled to receive medical treatment paid for by your employer or the employer’s insurance company for your injuries.  To the extent reasonably required, your employer must provide medical services, but does have the ability to determine who provides such medical treatment.  This makes sense to a certain degree: if your employer is paying the bill, your employer thus also has the ability to determine the appropriate medical provider, so long as it is reasonable.

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm accepts injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you only pay attorney's fees if we get you compensation. For a free consultation with a lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900, or contact us online.
 

Additional Payment for Permanent Disfigurement and Scarring

The fourth and final benefit under Missouri Workers Compensation, which is in addition to the other benefits available to an injured worker in Missouri, is the entitlement to an additional payment for Permanent Disfigurement.

Thankfully, most injuries do not result in scarring.  However, if you end up with any type of scar, burn, stitches, skin discoloration or other disfigurement on your head, face, neck, arms and hands, you will be entitled to an additional lump sum payment for that disfigurement and scarring, up to the limit set by the Law.

This also includes surgical scars on your head, face, neck, arms and hands.

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm accepts injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you only pay attorney's fees if we get you compensation. For a free consultation with a lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900, or contact us online.

Injury Lawyers to Help You Understand Workers Comp

We are a Missouri Law Firm specializing in helping people hurt at work get their fair compensation for their work injury by helping them understand the system.  A Workers’ Compensation claim is not a lawsuit in a strict sense.  It is an administrative claim processed in the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation.  The claim is the way the employer’s Workers’ Compensation insurance company provides benefits to injured workers.  The Missouri Workers’ Compensation system was originally designed to provide a quicker and easier way for injured workers to get benefits. 

It used to be that an injured worker had to sue in civil court for any injury the worker suffered.  Of course, that process could take years, and many workers and their families were effectively denied justice because the law suit took so long, and no compensation was paid to the worker while the law suit was going.  The Workers’ Compensation Law made it so an injured worker could get medical help right away, payment for lost work, compensation for permanent injuries, and also payment for ugly, permanent scars.

Recent changes to that system have made it harder and harder for injured workers to get benefits and disability payments without a lawyer who handles workers compensation cases, especially since sweeping changes in the Workers’ Compensation Law took place in Missouri in 2005.  Workers’ Compensation cases are usually the only legal way to get compensation for someone hurt at work (the law calls the workers' compensation system the "exclusive remedy" for the employer to get compensation if hurt at work). 

This means you have to fight for your rights to make sure you get appropriate medical treatment, payment for time lost from work, payment for medical treatment, compensation in the form of lump sum disability payments, or permanent total disability.

The Hein Law Firm defends injured workers to help get them the compensation they need and deserve for work-related injuries, work accidents, sickness and to get compensation for their families if the worker dies from an accident at work.  If warranted, we also send our clients to independent doctors to get independent medical examinations for injuries that workers suffer in order to make sure the client gets the most money possible for his or her injury, and also to make sure we are “keepin’ ‘em honest” – that is, making sure the company’s insurance company is paying what is should for the worker’s injury, given all the facts and the law.

These are the areas covered under this Category, for your additional information.

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm accepts work comp injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you only pay attorneys' fees if we get you compensation. For a free consultation with a lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900, or contact us online.

Payment for Permanent Disability Under MO Work Comp

The third benefit an injured worker has a right to receive under Missouri Work Comp is payment in the form of a lump sum at the end of a case for Permanent Disability or for the Permanency of the Injury.  The law calls this Permanent Partial Disability and Permanent Total Disability Benefits.

There are a number of benefits to which you are entitled as an injured worker under to Missouri Workers’ Compensation law.  The benefit that your lawyer is most usually employed to obtain is called permanent partial disability payments (PPD).  PPD benefits are obtained after the doctor provided by the employer completes treatment of the injured worker.

Following most work-related injuries, the injured worker is rated as having a particular level of permanent disability from a particular injury.  Many injured workers are not aware after completing medical treatment that they are entitled to an additional payment for an amount of disability related to an injury.  A cut or minor back injury will still likely produce some amount of disability payment that the employee is entitled to receive.  The amount of PPD payment that you as an injured worker are entitled to receive is best valued and determined by knowledgeable legal counsel who has practiced in Workers’ Compensation law for many years and has knowledge as to the value of such claims.  Often, our Firm sends clients to doctors we know and trust for independent medical evaluations (IME) to determine the level of disability that is fair and appropriate for a work related injury.  Our firm has been recognized for its ability to maximize the amount of payment that an employee receives for a work injury.

Permanent Total Disability benefits are available to employee who because of a work injury are determined to be unable to work any longer on the open labor market.  Weekly benefits are available for the remainder of the life of an employee who is no longer able to work because of such an injury.  Permanent Total Disability benefits may be obtain from you last employer or from the Second Injury Fund if it is determined that your last work injury combined with previous injuries resulted in the condition of permanent disability.  

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm accepts injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you only pay attorney's fees if we get you compensation. For a free consultation with a lawyer, call us at (314) 645-7900, or contact us online.

Medical Causation in Workers' Compensation Cases

The term "Medical Causation" in the context of a workers compensation case refers to the burden that an injured worker has to prove that the injury, which is a medical condition, was caused by the work accident.  The Missouri Workers’ Compensation Law was amended in 2005 to include some "magic language" that an injured worker has to prove in order to have a viable workers compensation case.  The new 2005 law made it for the injury to be compensable, an injured worker now has to prove that the work injury was the “prevailing factor” in causing the injury and level of disability and medical condition.  Medical causation is needed in cases where some kind of trauma happened or where an employee is injured by an occupational exposure or repetitive stress that is part of their employment.

The law devines the "prevailing factor" as the primary factor in comparison to any other possible factor resulting in the employee’s injury.  For example, in carpal tunnel cases, the injured worker now has to prove that the repetitive stress of the work (typing, jack hammering, using the hands over and over again) is the “prevailing factor”, and not another type of disease that can be a factor in causing carpal tunnel, like obesity, diabetes, or thyroid problems.  These cases are very difficult to prove without a “medical causation” opinion from an independent doctor, which is what we have to seek in these types of cases when there is another possible factor involved in the injured worker’s health history.

Employees commonly seek our assistance in their work injury claims in helping determine the cause of their injury.  Our firm commonly requests independent doctors and medical professionals evaluate our clients in a clinical setting to determine the precise cause and extent of injuries.

No Recovery, No Fee!

The Hein Law Firm accepts injury cases on a contingency basis. This means you only pay attorney's fees if we get you compensation. For a free consultation with an Lawyer Experienced in Medical Causation Workers Compensation Issues, call us at 314.645.7900, or contact us online.