{"id":46715,"date":"2018-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T12:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T17:31:52","slug":"why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers\u2019 compensation is supposed to be a no-hassle method of getting your medical care covered and your bills paid while you\u2019re unable to work due to a job-related injury or illness. In fact, the program is designed to be less expensive and easier for employers as well as injured employees.<\/p>\n<p>Why would your employer (or your employer\u2019s insurance company) accuse you of inventing an injury? You know that your injury is legitimate. Unfortunately, you may have raised your employer\u2019s suspicions simply because you had the bad luck to trigger one or more \u201cred flags\u201d that employers are told to watch for to spot workers\u2019 compensation fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Every insurance company and employer probably has its own list of triggers, but here are some of the most common:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019re injured in your first week of work. Employers often suspect you took the job only to purposefully fake an injury and claim benefits.<\/li>\n<li>Your injury occurred on a Monday morning. Employers often suspect that those injuries really happened over the weekend \u2014 on an employee\u2019s own time.<\/li>\n<li>Your account of the accident changes. You may just have forgotten something, but your employer may believe that your story changed because you were lying.<\/li>\n<li>You are injured right before a big change in employment. Employers see injuries just before layoffs, terminations, the end of seasonal work and even vacations as automatically suspect.<\/li>\n<li>There weren\u2019t any witnesses to your injury. Employers often assume that these are fabricated events unless you have visible wounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s little if anything you can do to control these suspicions. Injuries happen when they happen and not always conveniently in the middle of the week with multiple witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>While you can try to <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/work-injuries\/\">minimize your employer\u2019s doubts<\/a> by reporting your injury promptly and seeking medical care right away, you may ultimately have to be prepared to battle the inherent suspicions that employers and insurers have about certain work injury claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> EMPLOYERS, \u201cTop 10 Warning Signs of Workers\u2019 Compensation Fraud,\u201d accessed June 13, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers\u2019 compensation is supposed to be a no-hassle method of getting your medical care covered and your bills paid while you\u2019re unable to work due to a job-related injury or illness. In fact, the program is designed to be less expensive and easier for employers as well as injured employees. Why would your employer (or your employer\u2019s insurance company) accuse&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-injury"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v23.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury - Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Workers\u2019 compensation is supposed to be a no-hassle method of getting your medical care covered and your bills paid while you\u2019re unable to work due to a job-related injury or illness. In fact, the program is designed to be less expensive and easier for employers as well as injured employees. Why would your employer (or your employer\u2019s insurance company) accuse&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-28T17:31:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin_c7zp2azd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin_c7zp2azd\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin_c7zp2azd\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1672cc9e5986cf7fe7f0bc468432bd2c\"},\"headline\":\"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-28T17:31:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\"},\"wordCount\":347,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Personal Injury\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\",\"name\":\"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury - Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-28T17:31:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/\",\"name\":\"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Logo-2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Logo-2.png\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1672cc9e5986cf7fe7f0bc468432bd2c\",\"name\":\"admin_c7zp2azd\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/856c0814e41319ee43af0c5cb848249f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/856c0814e41319ee43af0c5cb848249f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin_c7zp2azd\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/author\/admin_c7zp2azd\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury - Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury","og_description":"Workers\u2019 compensation is supposed to be a no-hassle method of getting your medical care covered and your bills paid while you\u2019re unable to work due to a job-related injury or illness. In fact, the program is designed to be less expensive and easier for employers as well as injured employees. Why would your employer (or your employer\u2019s insurance company) accuse&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/","og_site_name":"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney","article_published_time":"2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-28T17:31:52+00:00","author":"admin_c7zp2azd","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin_c7zp2azd"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/"},"author":{"name":"admin_c7zp2azd","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1672cc9e5986cf7fe7f0bc468432bd2c"},"headline":"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury","datePublished":"2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-28T17:31:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/"},"wordCount":347,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["News","Personal Injury"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/","url":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/","name":"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury - Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-06-18T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-28T17:31:52+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/why-your-employer-might-believe-youre-lying-about-an-injury\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why your employer might believe you\u2019re lying about an injury"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/","name":"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#organization","name":"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney","url":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Logo-2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Logo-2.png","width":1024,"height":400,"caption":"Personal Injury Lawyer Cleveland | Car Accident Attorney"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1672cc9e5986cf7fe7f0bc468432bd2c","name":"admin_c7zp2azd","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/856c0814e41319ee43af0c5cb848249f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/856c0814e41319ee43af0c5cb848249f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin_c7zp2azd"},"url":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/author\/admin_c7zp2azd\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49559,"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions\/49559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skolnicklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}