How Does A Light Duty Assignment Affect Your Workers' Comp Claim?

Will a light-duty assignment affect your worker's comp claim?

If your employer assigns you to "Light Duty," you have to attempt that assignment, or it can negatively impact your worker's comp claim.

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From the injury video: - Let's say you get hurt and you're doing manual labor, and you're, I don't know, something, you're doing heavy equipment lifting or something, I don't know. But you can't, you're hurt, obviously. You can't go back to that job. But the job says, well, he can do some clerical work for me. Well, that's considered light duty. That might be sitting behind a computer, or maybe being a mail clerk. I mean, anything that's not the full duty lifting and straining and those sort of things. So that would be what light duty would be. And now, if they offer that to you, and your doctor says that you can perform light duty, and of course, they may put some restrictions. We see that a lot. There might be, don't lift more than five pounds, no overhead lifting. But you do have to attempt, in South Carolina, you have to attempt that light duty. If you don't attempt the light duty, then they can actually mess up your Worker's Compensation claim. So you definitely have to attempt it. If you do attempt it, and you say, man, I can't even do this, we just gotta let your employer know. And a lot of times we can negotiate with the adjuster to get you, either change the job or change what they're offering you to do. Or if they still say, well, either try it or nothing, then of course, we would just request a hearing and bring those issues up to a commissioner. ♪ When life gets ugly ♪ ♪ Justice is lovely ♪ ♪ The Lovely Law Firm ♪