{"id":426,"date":"2012-10-29T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:25:15","slug":"self-help-for-your-nevada-work-comp-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2012\/10\/articles\/uncategorized\/self-help-for-your-nevada-work-comp-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Help for Your Nevada Work Comp Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you do want to attempt to do legal research on your own, here are links to look up the laws, regulations and cases that might address your particular issue.&nbsp; Keep in mind that laws and regulations must be interpreted, and what lawyers do for a living, after three years of law school, is argue alternate interpretations of the law.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirweb.state.nv.us\">DIR&nbsp;website <\/a>also has basic information for injured workers.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the laws in Chapter 616 (the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act) are poorly written.&nbsp;&nbsp; Look at the law that discusses medical care on denied claims, NRS&nbsp;616C.090.&nbsp; Would you have any idea after reading that law how an injured worker can get reimbursed for deductibles or co-payments that he paid after&nbsp;his claim was denied once&nbsp;an appeals officer&nbsp;orders the claim accepted?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is important to know how local appeals officers interpret laws and how&nbsp;they might apply the &nbsp;Nevada Supreme Court decisions that discuss workers&#8217; compensation claims to your particular fact situation.&nbsp; There isn&#8217;t any public repository of appeals officer decisions.&nbsp; You must have experience arguing cases before the appeals officers before you can predict a likely outcome in your case.&nbsp; Most cases are not decided on a question of law, but instead are decided on whether the appeals officer thinks that you or your witnesses appear to be telling the truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers is a free state agency created for the purpose of representing injured workers during the second level of the appeals process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you do want to attempt to do legal research on your own, here are links to look up the laws, regulations and cases that might address your particular issue.&nbsp; Keep in mind that laws and regulations must be interpreted, and what lawyers do for a living, after three years of law school, is argue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2012\/10\/articles\/uncategorized\/self-help-for-your-nevada-work-comp-claim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self-Help for Your Nevada Work Comp Claim<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}