How to Prepare for a Workers Comp Human Resources Interview
- 1). Bring your medical records. Whether you see a doctor assigned to you by your company or your own personal doctor (depending on the state in which you live), bring all documents and records that demonstrate the nature and extent of your injury. If you live in a state where the workers compensation laws use an "impairment schedule" (a list of injuries and the recovery associated with each), make sure your physician specifies your level of impairment on the documents.
- 2). Record the number of days you missed work. In some states, workers compensation for lost wages begins after you miss three days of work; in others, you must miss seven or more days before you can recover for the money you lost from being out of work due to the injury. While your HR department may have a record of the number of days you missed, you should also know this information so you can compare your data to theirs.
- 3). Go over your account of the work injury. You will want to be as specific as you can when you explain both what you were doing and how you were injured while doing it. Remember, the injury need not have been caused by your employer's negligence- even if you just got hurt by accident, your employer's workers comp policy will have to pay as long as you got hurt in the course of duty and you weren't drunk or otherwise violating company policy.
- 4). Bring the names and phone numbers of any witnesses to the accident to help corroborate your story.
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