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Trusting Your Employer in Your Workers Compensation Case

Q: I’ve been hurt at work and now I have a workers compensation claim filed with my employer. Should I trust my employer to do the right thing and compensate me fairly?

A: Workers Compensation cases are such that people want to trust their employer and trust that their employer is going to do exactly what they should do. But what they fail to understand sometimes is that their employer often times has very little control over how the workers’ compensation process works.

Once the worker is injured, you become a number to the insurance carrier and the insurance carrier calls the shots.

Workers Compensation Lawyer in Belleville, IL

About Erick:

Erick Kirkpatrick is an attorney practicing in Belleville, Illinois with Kirkpatrick Law Offices. The areas that I practice in are Workers Compensation and Personal Injury in Belleville, IL. That means that I represent people who are hurt at work, who have worker’s compensation claims and people who are injured in other manners such as automobile accidents, construction accidents and things of that sort.

Our law firm represents only plaintiffs. We’ve never represented an insurance company or employer.

Eric is from Benton Illinois. He moved to the Belleville, IL area in 1996. Erick graduated law school in 1991 and he began by representing underground coal miners who worked for the United Mine Workers Association.

His experience has allowed him to become very familiar with the coal mining industry.  He understands coal mine work and is knowledgeable about the injuries that coal miners have sustained over the years that he has been practicing.

Most of Eric’s clients are from the Southern Illinois and Central Illinois area.

After the coal mines of Southern Illinois began to experience a downturn, Eric continued to do a lot of work representing Union members, including iron workers, laborers, carpenters and others in the various fields of construction. Erick also represents anyone who gets hurt due to someone else’s negligence.

If you’ve been hurt in an accident, feel free to call me at 618-239-6070. You can also email me at erick@lawkirkpatrick.com My office is open M-F from 8:00am until 4:30 or 5:00pm. I will do my best to get back to you quickly.