Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

DON'T RESIGN!!! that's crazy talk. you will lose 1 year of unemployment benefits. AND you lose Temporary Disability payments when a physician writes you can perform modified duty and the employer claims it would have paid you for modified duty except you quit. Resigning when you are hurt on the job is the silliest, most uneducated option you might consider.

The Uninsured Employers Fund -- UEF in comp lingo -- will provide you with treatment for your injury and Temporary Total Disability payments while a treating physician writes you are unable to work while you are healing from your work injury. You just need to submit the Workers Compensation Claim Form to the employer, and rush to a physician that knows how to write an admissible Workers Comp Progress Report/PHysician's First Report of Occupational Injury. BOOM! if the employer doesn't pay the medical bill and your Temporary Disability, you (well, likely your lawyer) runs to the Workers CompensationAppeals Board and gets an order for that employer to pay, and joins the Uninsured Employers Fund. GET A LAWYER WELL-VERSED IN UEF CASES IMMEDIATELY