Georgia Workers' Compensation Lawyer Blog

Unfortunately, the Atlanta State Board of Workers' Compensation has a few Administrative Law Judges and many, many Georgia workers' compensation claims to be heard at each calendar call. In my experience, at least 99% of "first set" hearings are postponed at least 30 days. More often than not, even "second set" hearings are postponed. Why?

When my Atlanta workers' compensation law office files a Request for Hearing, we also send discovery requests to the Employer and Insurer.  They have 45 days to respond when these are sent with the hearing request.  Once a defense attorney is appointed, he or she will send my office discovery requests as well, and we will have 30 days to respond.  If the defense attorney takes my client's deposition, he/she will likely want to request medical records from doctors named in the deposition, and these doctors will have 30 days to respond.

By the time all these Requests for Production of Documents and Interrogatories have been sent, and responses mailed, 2-3 months have passed.  Hence, the postponed hearings.  In order to try and "fix" this, I work to get my clients' depositions scheduled as quickly as possible with the defense attorney after we file a hearing request.  Generally, once a claimant's deposition is taken, the case begins to move toward settlement or trial.  Feel free to call Mr. Moebes, the Atlanta workers' compensation attorney, with questions about timing of Georgia workers' compensation claims.

No.  More than likely, his youthful appearance is due to his passionate representation of his clients and a strong belief in what he does. Have you ever seen someone who's spent 20 years at a job he didn't like? It shows. Such people have bad posture and frown lines.  They also swear a lot.

Another reason your Atlanta workers' compensation lawyer may appear youthful is his service in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. The military requires that its members maintain a high level of physical fitness (yes, even the Air Force, contrary to what those in green or brown may believe). A fit attorney is a seemingly youthful attorney.  Augustus Gloop doesn't get "Happy Veterans' Day" emails.

So, if you arrive at your deposition and meet the attorney whom you've previously only known from his witty blog and timely telephone conferences, there's no need for a "How old are you again?" greeting.  I'm as old as Mozart was when he died.  Doesn't that put things in perspective?

Per an article in the Victoria Advocate, a new book, "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates," portrays pirates as a progressive lot, politically and economically. They embraced democracy, were quite tolerant of racial and sexual differences, and even created an early form of worker's compensation and health care.

If a shipload of rogues can recognize the importance of workers' compensation, isn't it time you called the Atlanta workers' compensation lawyer about your injury at work today? 

Of course it is.