Under California Workers’ Compensation Laws, You Have a Right to Prompt and Effective Medical Attention

Recovering Millions of Dollars for Thousands of Injured Workers throughout Southern California

Under California’s workers’ compensation laws you are entitled to a number of benefits, including the right to receive effective medical care in a prompt manner. Other benefits provided for by California’s workers’ compensation laws include the following:

To ensure you receive the full benefit afforded to you under California’s workers’ compensation laws, you should retain the services of a skilled and experienced workers’ compensation attorney.

Located in Santa Ana, California, and assisting injured workers throughout Orange County and Southern California, the law firm of Arturo L. Nieto, Inc. has helped thousands of individuals injured on the job receive their full benefits under California’s workers’ compensation laws. We have recovered over $300 million in benefits for thousands of injured workers and their families. Workers’ Compensation Attorney Arturo Nieto has more than 28 years’ experience guiding injured workers and their families through the workers’ compensation process and helping them enforce their right to prompt and effective medical care.

For additional information about our qualifications and background, visit our Benefits of Retaining Arturo Nieto page.

Understand Your Rights to Receive Medical Attention and Choose a Doctor

In California, under the workers’ compensation laws, you are entitled to effective medical treatment, which means that your treating physician must choose treatment proven to cure or relieve your work-related injury or illness. Those treatments are laid out in a set of guidelines that detail, among other things, which treatments are effective for certain injuries, as well as how often the treatment should be given and for how long.

If you are not receiving proper medical treatment, or if your employer’s physician refuses treatment, you should seek counsel from an experienced workers’ compensation lawyer.

Also, under the California’s workers’ compensation law, a prior injury does not affect your right to receive medical treatment. If work caused you a previous injury to reoccur, you are still entitled to workers’ compensation benefits.

In California, your employer can choose the doctor to treat you immediately after the injury, unless you have previously notified your employer in writing that you have a personal physician. Many employers or employer insurance companies have a network of providers. Regardless, you are entitled to seek treatment from a doctor of your choosing after 30 days.

For questions regarding medical treatment and choice of doctors, or if you feel you are being denied treatment or not being treated in accordance with a proven treatment procedure, you should seek legal counsel from an experienced workers’ compensation lawyer.

Schedule a Free, Confidential Consultation with an Experienced Santa Ana Workers’ Compensation Medical Treatment Attorney Today

To discuss your workplace accident, on-the-job injury, or denial of medical treatment with an experienced Santa Ana workers compensation attorney, schedule a free confidential consultation by calling (714) 558-0435, or fill out our intake form and we will contact you.

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As a Cuban American, Arturo Nieto is fluent in both Spanish and English and all members of his staff are bilingual

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