"STEALTH REPRESENTATION""Stealth Representation" with Attorney Tim Kennedy is a hugely effective strategy early after a work injury to get you the results you need and deserve. It's FREE, and your employer and their insurer DO NOT NEED TO KNOW!
What Can STEALTH REPRESENTATION Do For You?
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What Do We Get Out of This?Stealth representation truly is FREE. Our goal is to encourage early attorney involvement because the advice we give, early and free, will strengthen your claim for ongoing rights and greatly increase the value of your claim later. This is hugely important, because employers and their insurance carriers have the maximum control over your claim in the first ninety days, and they abuse and manipulate that control to limit the value of your claim and to make it hard for you to assert ongoing rights if your injury is at all serious or has lasting effects on your ability to earn a full living. Our goal is to get your claim "accepted" WITHOUT A FIGHT, and without the employer or insurer even being aware you have help and guidance from someone who knows the system better than they do.
Understand that when an employer or insurer "accepts" an injury claim, they typically do so via a "temporary" notice. This does NOT mean "all is well." In the vast majority of claims, these "temporary" notices are used by employers and insurers to exert undue control over the injured worker and the involved medical providers. The injured worker soon finds himself in a much worse status -- worse even than if the claim had been denied initially -- all because the employer and insurer manipulated his treatment course and work status to give themselves a very strong upper hand. Our advice and guidance can turn that situation on its head. Unlike some other attorneys, we are not anxious to pick a fight we can help you to avoid. Our goal is to get you on benefits quickly and quietly with behind-the-scenes advice, then guide you past every trick and every trap, to get your claim to the point where YOU will have the upper hand, and where your rights will become truly legally binding upon the employer. The insurer will not be able to back you into a corner just because they know exactly where they can cheat the laws to manipulate your claim. Our guidance makes your claim more valuable, and can greatly prolong the period you can be on benefits without a fight. Then, if your injury has lasting effects and a time comes when you need us to protect or extend those rights in a court dispute, or to negotiate a lump sum settlement, we already have a rapport, your case is strong and your rights are valuable based on our earlier guidance, and our fee -- if and when triggered only by success in litigation or settlement negotiation -- will then be contingent upon our success. Call us to learn more. You literally have NOTHING TO LOSE but the option of free, effective advice. Call us now. Don't Risk Going it AloneEven in cases where your employer or their insurer "accept" your work injury or occupational disease claim, they will distort the law in their favor, often with a smile on their face. They may direct you only to their favorite doctors (not what the law says, but many employers get away with it), or claim they don't have to pay any benefits because they have available "light duty" (even if the job is not a match for what you can actually safely do with your injury), they may fail to pay "partial" wage loss benefits due if the light duty they put you in actually leaves you with a reduced paycheck (again not what the law intends, but employers often get away with it). They will have justifications for all they try to get away with, but most will be distortions of the law. If they "accept" your claim at all, they may do it only using a letter to you from their insurance carrier (without the legally required documentation to the PA Bureau of Workers Compensation, in violation of your rights). Or they might use a merely "temporary" recognition that leaves you hugely vulnerable -- in ways they fully expect to soon exploit.
That is, the employer and insurer may acknowledge your claim with a "Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable" which is barely worth the paper it is written on and which is their first step toward making you believe your rights are secure, when in fact such "temporary" notice is not an admission of any obligation to you. The insurance folks will then work behind the scenes to pressure doctors and even the employer to stab you in the back before the end of ninety days of disability. They may ramp things up by having a "nurse case manager" attend your medical appointments or speak privately with your doctors to influence how they document your status. Even a very serious injury does not protect you, since they will press the doctors to claim that the work event was only responsible for a small element of your pathology, and to claim that any longer-term problems came from some "pre-existing" medical pathology that might never have been symptomatic if not for the work injury. Or, if they get too close to their 90 day timeline for a "temporary" acceptance of your claim, they may simply suddenly deny that there is any injury -- even for a witnessed and documented injury -- just to force you to have to prove it in court, while they meanwhile stop any temporary benefits and deny ongoing benefits or treatment rights. This is a very common ploy for serious injuries that approach 90 days of benefits, since the employers and insurers assume an injured worker will not have resources to survive a long dispute with neither wages from working nor benefits from a claim they've improperly denied after first treating it as "temporary." Mr. Kennedy's thirty-plus years of experience handling Pennsylvania workers compensation claims has convinced him that employers and insurers, even when they seem well-intentioned early in a claim, are ALWAYS looking at their own interests and ALWAYS try to exploit the fact they know the workers compensation rules, as well as the cheats they can use, far better than the typical injured worker. Having Tim on your side tips the playing field far more in your favor. And because of our STEALTH REPRESENTATION option, you literally have NOTHING TO LOSE by getting us involved. Call today: The Law Offices of Timothy Kennedy. |
STEALTH REPRESENTATION from LOTK Gets You Results!
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