Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

Re: Internship Occupational Injury

Your first concern should be to try to reduce any negative effect on your credit standing. Call up a supervisor at your former employer and demand that the bill be paid that day with a letter stating that the company and not you was responsible for the charge and nothing negative should go on your credit rating. Then write the Lab and point out that they knew it was work related and that your employer was therefore responsible for the payment so they acted improprely in turning it over to a collection agency to go after you and have opened themselves up to a suit for negligently damaging your credit worthiness, so what are they going to do to try to minimize the damage to you. They contact the three credit reporting companies and try to get through to a supervisor to help correct your credit rating. Find out what effect it has had. Then have an initial consulation with several attorneys to see if any believes you have a case of liability and where you can collect enough to justify hiring an attorney, the costs of litigation, the stree on you, etc.