If you or someone you love has been injured at work, the Law Office of Paul Hogan, LLC can help you pursue compensation for your injuries. We have helped clients in Wichita, Kansas and the surrounding area recover compensation for medical bills, lost income, restricted lifestyle, and pain and injuries suffered while on the job. Our Workers' Compensation attorneys are familiar with the pain and financial damage that an on the job injury inflicts upon a worker and their family. We also understand the Workers' Compensation system, enabling us to effectively evaluate your case and represent you in the complex claims process. Acting as your legal representative, your attorney will support you through the claims process and ensure that you receive the benefits to which you are entitled. The Law Office of Paul Hogan, LLC believes that achieving justice on behalf of the injured victim is the highest and best expression of the art of practicing law.

Workers' compensation is designed to protect workers and their dependents against the hardships from injury or death arising out of the work environment. There are many ways employees can be injured at work, including vehicle accidents, lifting, cutting or crushing trauma, and slips and falls. Occupational illnesses are usually the result of long-term exposure or repetitive motion injuries (carpal tunnel), toxic chemicals, heart attacks and exposure to toxic materials. Workers' Compensation laws provide money and medical benefits to an employee who has an injury as a result of an accident, injury or occupational disease on the job.

The following are general guidelines under which you are eligible to receive Workers' Compensation benefits in Kansas through June 2005:

• Maximum - $449
• Minimum - $25
• Minimum Survivors Benefit...................$299
• Mileage Reimbursement..........37 cents per mile (As an employee injured on the job, you are generally entitled to mileage reimbursement for trips to see a physician for distances in excess of five miles for the round trip. If you must hire transportation, this can also be reimbursed.)

Kansas also has several categories of disability compensation benefits including; Temporary Total Disability; Permanent Total Disability; Permanent Partial Scheduled Disability; Permanent Partial General Disability; and Survivors' Benefits which are paid to an employee's surviving spouse and dependent children if death occurs as a result of injury. Burial expenses up to $5,000 are also covered. 

It is not always easy to obtain benefits, and injured employees may be denied benefits if they fail to prove that their injury was job related. The national Workers Compensation Website recommends hiring legal representation to help guide you through the complex claims process. The website identifies several circumstances in which "…hiring a lawyer is critical…", particularly in situations where an employer denies that you were injured on the job, a carrier has denied benefits, you cannot get medical treatment, you are not getting paid, or the adjustor promises benefits or care that never arrives and other circumstances.