Oklahoma Workers Compensation Blog

Thousands of people are injured on the job in Oklahoma each year, and are subsequently faced with significant medical bills, physical injuries and emotional suffering. Being injured on the job in Oklahoma can lead to a number of life-altering consequences for injured individuals. Besides the physical pain resulting from a workplace injury, serious injuries often require extensive medical care, and can also prevent workers from returning to work for a period of time, both of which can result in a significant financial burden for the worker and his loved ones. If you were injured on the job in Oklahoma, you may be entitled to medical benefits to cover the cost of the medical bills associated with your injury. It is important to be fully informed about your legal rights and what medical benefits you may be entitled to following a workplace injury. Contact an OK workers' compensation attorney today to discuss your workers' compensation claim.

Workers compensation claims by an 'elderly' workforce could be on the rise over the next couple of years. Different from years gone by is the fact that many of the 'almost' retired workforce has had their retirement funds and life savings in the stock market and other risky investimates that have tanked with the downtrodden economy. What does this mean for you? It means that you will be competing with a more experienced work force that has decide not to retire at a traditional retirement age.

After the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York on Septempber 11, 2001, our great country united to help each other. Thousands of workers that were exposed to toxic dust at the ground zero World Trade Center site have become seriously ill and need the country to band together for them now.

The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) has announced that workers in Carter, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma, Payne and Stephens counties who lost work or earnings due to wildfires that occurred in the state, beginning April 9 and continuing through April 12, have until the close of business July 24 to apply for disaster unemployment assistance (DUA) under Presidential Disaster Declaration FEMA-1846-DR.