Workers' Compensation 

West Michigan Workers' Compensation Attorneys

Injured on the job? Has a work-related accident given you painful or disabling injuries that you will live with for the rest of your life? Are you paralyzed due to an accident at work? Have you lost a limb or digit in an industrial mishap? Have you been stricken with partial or full deafness or blindness due to loud noises, explosions or chemical exposure? Know your legal rights. At Bleakley Law Offices, P.C., we will aggressively fight for your rights if you have been injured on the job. Our clients have received some of the highest workers' compensation awards in West Michigan. Contact our Muskegon injury law firm to discuss the specifics of your case.

Workers' Comp Attorneys that Know Your Legal Rights

Our attorneys represent workers who are injured on the job or disabled due to a job-related accident. We pursue claims for lost wages and medical expenses against private industry and federal, state and local government employers and their workers' compensation insurers. We also handle issues dealing with defenses, fraud, subrogation and appeals.

We help clients recover rightful workers' compensation benefits after work-related injuries including:

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Hand or shoulder injury
• Neck, back or knee injury
• Other orthopedic injury
• Organ damage or occupational disease
• Psychiatric or neurological injury
• Toxic-poisoning
• Repetitive trauma injury
• Other work injury

Workplace accidents often involve falls down stairs, falling debris, injuries from lifting or loading, machinery accidents and other accidents.

We Help You Navigate the Complex Workers' Comp System

If you have been injured on the job, you are entitled to certain benefits under Michigan law. The Michigan Worker's Disability Compensation Act represents a trade-off of sorts for the employee: the employee receives compensation for any job-related injury regardless of fault, but the nature and extent of benefits is limited to that provided by the Act. The Act also represents a similar trade-off for employers: the employer is liable for some benefits in nearly every case of workplace injury, but this liability is limited, even in cases of employer fault, to the nature and extent of benefits provided by the Act. The risk of workplace injury thus becomes a cost of doing business.

Navigation of the Michigan Worker's Disability Compensation Act requires the assistance of an experienced attorney. Our workers' compensation lawyers can explain the complex process in simple language, inform you of your rights and vigorously pursue the workers' comp benefits you need and deserve.

Contact a West Michigan Work Comp Lawyer

Whether you need assistance with an initial claim for benefits, denial of your application or challenging the termination of your benefits, our attorneys have the knowledge and skills to assist you. Contact our worker's comp lawyers at 1-877-544-3733 for a free consultation.