Anyone who sustains an injury on the job in Delaware or contracts an occupational disease should be learning about options for seeking workers’ compensation benefits in order to cover medical bills and lost wages, and to compensate for temporary and permanent disabilities. If you begin researching the workers’ compensation process in Delaware, you might learn…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in prosecuting a scarring and disfigurement claim on behalf of one of its clients. Our client was involved in a work-related injury on February 17, 2018 and sustained a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. Our client had arthroscopic surgery and had five scars from the procedure. …
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in prosecuting a claim on behalf of one of its clients when we filed a petition for permanent impairment to our client’s left upper extremity. Our client was injured on June 4, 2020 as a medical assistant in nursing for the State of Delaware Psychiatric Center when she…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in prosecuting a case on behalf of one of its clients against his Employer and it’s worker’s compensation insurance company. Our client was injured on April 11, 2019 when he was loading material while employed at the Home Depot. Our client injured his back and proceeded through conservative…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful at a disfigurement hearing held to determine the compensation due for our client’s injury to his hand; specifically, the crushing of his fifth (pinky) finger. The Industrial Accident Board agreed with our firm’s argument that our client’s disfigurement was clearly disfigured and that the Claimant credibly testified to…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in pursuing a claim on behalf of our clients in a contested case wherein the worker’s compensation insurance carrier denied that our client injured herself in a work accident. Our client was originally injured on May 24, 2018 which the Employer and worker’s compensation insurance company acknowledged as…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in prosecuting a case on behalf of one of our clients in the case of Laird v. Bayhealth Medical Center. Our client was injured on May 13, 2020 while she was moving an operating table to the surgery center. The table weighed approximately 600 pounds and ultimately fell…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in prosecuting a claim on behalf of one of our clients seeking the compensability of his work injury. Our client worked as a fork lift operator for the employer but was reassigned to the employer’s “utility crew.” The utility crew had job duties associated with stacking multiple pallets…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in prosecuting a claim on behalf of one of our clients seeking the compensability of sacroiliac joint injections as well as sacroiliac joint fusion surgery. Our medical expert witness, Dr. Yalamanchili, a neurosurgeon, was found to be more credible than that of the employer’s expert medical witness, Dr.…
DetailsThe Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in defending our client in a Termination Petition case filed by the worker’s compensation carrier, and, simultaneously successful in prosecuting our own Petition to seek Additional Compensation Due. Our client injured himself on May 31, 2019 and the claim was originally denied as not work related. This firm…
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