Category: Idaho Workers’ Compensation

At Goicoechea Law Offices we limit our practice to a few areas of law, including Idaho work injury law, so we can effectively help injured workers in Idaho.

We deal with the insurance company, so you don’t have to.

Post Falls Idaho Workers’ Compensation Claim

Have you suffered a work-related accident and injury in Post Falls? Don’t delay! Our law office speaks with injured workers regularly who delayed reporting their work injury because an employer discouraged reporting the injury, or the injured worker thought they’d get better. Often injured workers who delay pursuing their claim lose their rights under Idaho work comp laws.

Work injuries can happen to anyone - especially in physical employment

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work accident and injury, you should:

-Tell your employer immediately.

-Seek medical care, and be sure to tell the medical provider that your injury is work-related. -Help your employer fill out a first report of injury.

-Contact your employer’s workers’ compensation carrier.

-You can also contact the Idaho Industrial Commission.

Unfortunately, the steps listed above are often insufficient to obtain the workers’ compensation benefits you deserve.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work comp injury, you may not have received the benefits you’re entitled to. Contact an experienced Idaho work injury lawyer now for a FREE case review by submitting your information below or call Goicoechea Law, LLC, at 208.743.2313.

Our attorneys represent injured workers throughout North Idaho in Post Falls, Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, Hayden, Bonners Ferry, Kellogg, St Maries, Wallace, and everywhere in between.

We handle claims against all Idaho workers’ compensation insurance carriers, including: Idaho State Insurance Fund; Associated Loggers Exchange; Liberty Mutual; Gallagher Bassett; Work Comp Exchange; Intermountain Claims; Travelers; and more.

Denied Moscow Idaho Workers’ Compensation Claim?

A serious work accident usually causes physical injury and financial trouble. Medical bills, lost wages, and time spent at doctors’ appointments literally add insult to your work injury.

Idaho’s workers’ compensation system should provide sure and certain relief to Idaho’s injured workers. Work comp payments may include time loss benefits, medical benefits, disability benefits, and even retraining. Many injured workers, however, are denied workers’ compensation benefits and don’t get the help they need.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work comp injury and don’t feel the insurance company or your employer are helping like they should, contact Goicoechea Law, LLC, to see if our attorneys can help.

Click “Learn more” below for a FREE case review.

Representing injured workers throughout North Idaho, including: Moscow; Lewiston; Orofino; Kamiah; Grangeville; Cottonwood; Coeur d’Alene; Post Falls; Hayden; Sandpoint; Bonners Ferry; and everywhere in between.

Denied Moscow Idaho Workers’ Compensation Claim?

A serious work accident usually causes physical injury and financial trouble. Medical bills, lost wages, and time spent at doctors’ appointments literally add insult to your work injury.

Idaho’s workers’ compensation system should provide sure and certain relief to Idaho’s injured workers. Work comp payments may include time loss benefits, medical benefits, disability benefits, and even retraining. Many injured workers, however, are denied workers’ compensation benefits and don’t get the help they need.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work comp injury and don’t feel the insurance company or your employer are helping like they should, contact Goicoechea Law, LLC, to see if our attorneys can help.

Click “Learn more” below for a FREE case review.

Representing injured workers throughout North Idaho, including: Moscow; Lewiston; Orofino; Kamiah; Grangeville; Cottonwood; Coeur d’Alene; Post Falls; Hayden; Sandpoint; Bonners Ferry; and everywhere in between.

Coeur d’Alene Work Injury Lawyer

Injured Idaho workers often call our office complaining that their employer wouldn’t file a work injury claim with the Idaho Industrial Commission or the workers’ compensation insurance carrier. An employer that won’t file a Notice of Injury may be an employer that will make your Idaho workers’ compensation claim more difficult than it should be. It could even result in denied claim.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work accident, and your employer won’t file a claim, The Idaho Industrial Commission recommends: “Contact the Industrial Commission immediately to report this activity and to request a First Report of Injury form. Completely filling out and filing the First Report of Injury with the Commission will register your claim.”

You can also contact an experienced Idaho workers’ compensation attorney regarding your work injury to learn your rights and see if need legal help.

At Goicoechea Law, LLC, we help Idaho’s injured workers in all phases of the work injury process – from filing the notice of injury to taking your case to the Idaho Supreme Court. If you’ve suffered an Idaho work comp injury and you’re not sure of your rights, contact an experienced Idaho workers’ compensation lawyer to request a FREE case review.

Call 208-743-2313 now or submit your information below.

Helping injured workers from Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Sandpoint, Hayden Lake and everywhere in between.

Lewiston Idaho Work Injury – Independent Medical Examination?

If you’ve been hurt at work in Idaho, the work comp insurance company may schedule you for an “independent medical evaluation” or IME.

There is nothing independent about the medical evaluation. It is more of an insurance medical evaluation. The doctor will be hand-picked by the insurance company.

If your Idaho workers compensation insurance adjuster schedules you for an “insurance medical evaluation,” then your compensation and medical benefits may be terminated.

Insurance company doctors often focus on pre-existing conditions, prior injuries, or say that injuries you feel were caused by your Idaho work unjury are unrelated to the Idaho work accident.

Our attorneys are familiar with most of the doctors in Idaho hired by workers compensation insurance carriers. If you have lost your Idaho workers compensation benefits because of an insurance medical evaluation, or if you have been scheduled for an insurance medical evaluation, contact an experienced Idaho workers compensation attorney to help protect your rights.

Our lawyers offer a FREE case review. Call 208-743-2313 now or submit information below.

Representing injured Idaho workers in North Idaho in communities like Lewiston, Moscow, Coeur d’Alene, Post falls, Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry, Rathdrum, Kellogg, Deary, Juliaetta, Orofino, Kamiah, Grangeville, Cottonwood, and everywhere in between.

We handle claims against all Idaho work injury insurance companies: Idaho State Insurance Fund; Work Comp Exchange; Associated Loggers Exchange; Intermountain Claims; Gallagher Bassett; and more.

Coeur d’Alene Idaho Work Injury Attorney

Lost Wages and Temporary Total Disability Benefits

Idahoans work hard and often in occupations and professions that involve considerable risk. Work accidents happen and so do Idaho work injuries.

As an Idaho worker who has suffered a work injury, you may be entitled to payment for lost wages while you are unable to work or have doctor-imposed restrictions because of an work-related accident. Your temporary total disability (TTD) or temporary partial disability (TPD) payments will be determined by your pre-injury wage and are impacted by any income you earn following your work injury.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho workers’ compensation accident and injury and are losing wages, you probably have questions. Don’t let your questions go unanswered.

Get a FREE Case Review

Contact an experienced Idaho work comp lawyer now for a FREE case review. Call us at (208) 743-2313 or submit your information below.

We help Idaho’s injured workers through all phases of on Idaho work injury claim. We can assist with medical benefits, time loss benefits, disability benefits, and more. Whether the work comp insurance company is the State Insurance Fund, Associated Loggers Exchange, Work Comp Exchange, or any other workers’ compensation insurance carrier, we may be able to help.

Our work accident lawyers represent injured workers throughout North Idaho in Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Sandpoint, Moscow, Lewiston, Orofino, Pierce, Weippe, Kamiah, Kooskia, Grangeville, Cottonwood, Deary, Kendrick, Potlatch, St. Maries, and everywhere in between.

Idaho Workers’ Compensation – Case Closed

Idaho workers’ compensation claims adjusters often tell injured workers that a claim is closed. The worker hangs her head and believes the work comp claims examiner.

At Goicoechea Law, LLC, our attorneys regularly speak with injured workers who have been told their claim was closed. In reality, the claim is not closed, but the workers’ compensation insurance carrier does not want to pay anymore.

If you have been told your Idaho work injury claim is closed, but you’re still having problems, contact an experienced Idaho work comp lawyer for a FREE case review.

We help injured workers get the benefits they deserve – including lost wages (TTD), medical benefits, permanent partial impairment (PPI), disability benefits, and more.

Our law office handles Idaho workers’ compensation cases before the Idaho Industrial Commission against the State Insurance Fund (SIF), Work Comp Exchange, Liberty Mutual, Associated Loggers Exchange, Sedgwick, Gallagher Bassett, and more.

We represent injured workers throughout North Idaho in communities like Lewiston, Moscow, Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry, Hayden Lake, Kellogg, St Maries, Kendrick, Juliaetta, Deary, Orofino, Grangeville, Kamiah, Kooskia, Nez Perce, and everywhere in between.

Idaho Peace Officer or Detention Officer Work Injury?

In Idaho peace officers and detention officers injured on the job are entitled to special protections under the Peace Officer and Detention Officer Temporary Disability Act. Some employers don’t know about Idaho’s peace officer and detention officer disability act, while other employers simply ignore it.

If you are an Idaho peace officer or Detention officer, and you’ve been injured on the job, you may not be receiving the workers’ compensation benefits you deserve.

Contact an experienced workers’ compensation attorney now for a FREE case review and to find out if you are being properly compensated for your work injury.

At Goicoechea Law, LLC, we represent injured workers throughout North Idaho, from Riggins to the Canadian border in towns and cities like Lewiston, Moscow, Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Sandpoint, St Maries, Kellogg, Potlatch, Deary, Juliaetta, Kendrick, Orofino, Pierce, Weippe, Kamiah, Grangeville, Nez Perce, and everywhere in between.

Post Falls Idaho Work Accident

Injured Idaho workers regularly call our office complaining that their employer won’t file a work injury claim with the Idaho Industrial Commission or the workers’ compensation insurance carrier.

If your employer won’t file a work injury claim, your Idaho workers’ compensation claim more difficult than it should be.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work comp injury, and your employer won’t file a claim, The Idaho Industrial Commission recommends:

“Contact the Industrial Commission immediately to report this activity and to request a First Report of Injury form. Completely filling out and filing the First Report of Injury with the Commission will register your claim.”

You can also contact an experienced Idaho workers’ compensation lawyer to learn your rights and see if you need legal help. At Goicoechea Law, LLC, we help Idaho’s injured workers in all phases of the work injury process – from filing the notice of injury to taking your case to the Idaho Supreme Court.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho work comp injury and you’re not sure of your rights, contact an experienced Idaho workers’ compensation attorney to request a FREE case review.

Helping injured workers in Post Falls, Coeur d’Alene, Hayden Lake, Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry, Rathdrum, Kellogg, Moscow, Lewiston, and everywhere in between.

Moscow Idaho Work Comp Claim?

Dangerous jobs are plentiful in North Idaho. With dangerous work, there is always a risk of a work injury.

You may be surprised to learn that according to the US Department of Labor and Bureau Statistics the top two private industry occupations with the largest number of work injuries and illnesses in 2020 are Nursing Assistants and Registered Nurses.

The Top 10 private industry occupations with the most injuries and illness in 2020 are:

1 Nursing assistants

2 Registered nurses

3 Laborers

4 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer

5 Stockers and order fillers

6 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

7 Retail salespersons

8 Personal care aides

9 Production workers, all other

10 General maintenance and repair workers

We help Idaho’s injured workers with benefits like medical care/bills, lost wages (temporary total disability or TTD), permanent partial impairment (PPI), permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, and all other Idaho workers’ compensation benefits.

If you’ve suffered an Idaho workers’ compensation accident and injury, then we may be able to help you. Contact an experienced Idaho work comp attorney now for a FREE case review by clicking “Learn more” below.

Representing injured Idahoans throughout North Idaho in: Moscow, Lewiston,  Orofino, Grangeville, Coeur d’Alene, Hayden, Post Falls, Sandpoint, Deary, Viola, Kendrick, Troy, Juliaetta, Bovill, Sandpoint, Orofino, Kamiah, Grangeville, and all of the surrounding communities.

Our law office handles cases before the Idaho Industrial Commission against all Idaho workers’ compensation insurance carriers, including: Idaho State Insurance Fund; Associated Loggers Exchange; Workers’ Compensation Exchange; Liberty Northwest Insurance; Gallagher Bassett; and more.