Life is full of unexpected moments, and they are often very unpleasant. Unfortunately, severe injuries and various kinds of damage as a result of work are quite common practice. It is necessary to know how to behave in such a situation and receive lawful compensation for being injured.
A work injury is any injury or damage to health that a person receives when performing his functional duties in the workplace or on the way to or from home.
Is the work injury considered the only reason for receiving an allowance from an employer in Israel? No, it isn’t. There are also concepts of occupational disease and microtrauma. The first means a closed list of diseases of Bituah Leumi or, if there is a corresponding court decision, other diseases that an employee may face due to harmful or inappropriate working conditions. Microtraumas are monotonous movements or minor injuries that recur and harm the worker’s health after a certain period of time. In both cases, you can submit a claim for an allowance.
Here everything is much more complicated. Each company is obliged to create safe working conditions for its employees and, if this does not happen, the employee has all the rights to demand full compensation for material and moral damage from the employer’s insurance company. In this case, it is necessary to submit a literate application to the court and in this way receive the due compensation. As a rule, the Israeli judicial system possesses the side of the employee and confirms his rights to the allowance for physical and moral damage due to the employer’s non-compliance with occupational health and safety. But for this, it is necessary to apply to the services of a professional lawyer. Otherwise, if the claim is incorrectly drawn up and the evidence is not collected fully, then a lot of time will be spent, but no payment is received.
The deadline for submitting an application for compensation in Bituah Leumi is 1 year from the date of receiving the injury at the workplace. But if the incident is recognized by the organization as an accident at work, the term for receiving an additional payment is 3 months. Therefore, it is better to immediately seek help from specialists and not to delay the process.
In the case of a claim to the employer, the maximum limitation period after the injury is 7 years.
What difficulties can workers face in receiving the allowance for work-related injuries?
It should be understood that neither Bituah Leumi nor the insurance company, and much less the employer, who seriously risks his reputation in the event of evidence of injury in the workplace, are not interested in paying you appropriate compensation. Therefore, it is quite possible to encounter the following problems:
In fact, it is only a small list of problems faced by workers when receiving compensation for a work injury. Their number is much higher. But do not despair. Trust these concerns to a professional lawyer.
Who can best to contact for help with receiving your work injury allowance in Haifa?
The Patkin & Partners Law Office will help to correctly collect all the documents for the allowance, draw up a statement of the claim and win a lawsuit. We counsel our clients and determine the usefulness of conducting the case to save their time and money on visiting unnecessary instances and collecting a pile of extra papers. Thanks to our work, our clients receive the maximum possible amount of the allowance with minimum labor costs on their part within the shortest time.
Do not despair when you receive a work injury. Contact the Patkin & Partners Law Office and you will receive all the required payments and will not be left alone with your problems.
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