Average Walmart Worker’s Compensation Settlement

Walmart currently operates over 10,500 stores, with over 300 located in California. These supercenters and neighborhood markets employ more than 103,500 staff members who work hard every day to ensure that shoppers get the items they need at reasonable prices. Many spend their days lifting, carrying, and loading large items into shelving, onto pallets, or moving them with carts or hand trucks. Others spend their workday cleaning stores and the surrounding property to ensure they are safe for shoppers.

Even with complete focus and attention to detail, there is always the potential for an injury accident that could leave one of these dedicated workers with injuries that prevent them from working and cost them income while they take time to heal. Fortunately, California offers injured workers one of the country’s most well-created and beneficial worker’s compensation programs. So, if you are a Walmart worker who gets hurt on the job, you can open a claim and get help covering medical expenses and your lost income.

Sadly, not all Walmart employees understand the benefits offered by worker’s comp or how to secure them. So, after suffering an injury incident at work, they contacted the Normandie Law Firm team, which has years of experience handling Walmart workers’ compensation cases, to learn more about the average Walmart worker’s compensation settlement. While that amount can appear helpful and offer hope in securing the money to help eliminate some debt and stress, it is not an accurate means of determining what that victim’s compensation will total.

If you recently suffered an injury while working at Walmart, please know that the staff at Normandie Law Firm is ready to assist you in overcoming the debt and other issues caused by this incident. While the average Walmart worker’s compensation settlement is between $2,000 and $20,000, please know that our staff will work diligently to ensure that you get the full benefits you deserve for the injuries you suffered while working at Walmart. Our team can be reached 24/7 to help you sort out the details of your workplace injury and how to open a claim with worker’s compensation. In addition, we offer a free consultation to meet with a skilled Walmart worker’s compensation attorney to discuss the case in person.

Soon, you will have all the information and guidance needed to ensure you receive the full benefit of the California worker’s compensation program and any other compensation that could be owed to you. Please contact our staff today to discuss the case, learn more about your possible benefits, and get a more accurate estimate of the compensation you might receive from workers’ compensation for your Walmart workplace injuries. But please make this call a priority, as there is a time limit for you to open a claim to ensure you are eligible for worker’s compensation benefits.

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Who Is Entitled To Worker’s Compensation Benefits?
The state requires all employers to purchase workers’ compensation insurance for their staff. This protection is provided to the workers at no cost, and the employer cannot deny access to the program. All claims are made to the staff at worker’s compensation, and the decision to cover a claim is made solely by that entity, with no input on the matter coming from the employer. As long as you were injured while taking part in activities that are required as a part of your regular job at Walmart, you will typically be covered by worker’s compensation if you suffer an injury accident.

What Does Worker’s Compensation Offer Injured Workers?
The most helpful and robust benefit offered to injured workers by worker’s comp is the medical care coverage. The program will cover up to $1M in medical expenses related to a workplace injury. This coverage can be used to pay bills from the hospital and your doctors for essential medical devices, therapy, prescription medication, and many more expenses that are considered part of the medical care needed to fully recover from your workplace injuries.

In cases where the victim’s injuries prevent them from returning to work immediately after the accident, worker’s compensation will provide up to 66% of your regular wages to help you pay your living expenses while you recover and heal. In instances where the time to recover is lengthy due to severe injuries, there are options to receive partial disability or permanent disability payments if your injuries limit your future earning potential. Finally, if you will never be able to return to the job you held at Walmart due to your injuries and the limitations they created, worker’s compensation offers free vocational training to help you prepare for a new career after your recovery is complete.

How To File A Walmart Worker’s Compensation Claim
Injured workers must understand that they have only 30 days from the date of their workplace injury incident to open a claim with the worker’s comp program. Typically, when you get hurt at work, you would immediately report the incident to your supervisor, who would notify the appropriate person at your Walmart location and be tasked with informing worker’s compensation of the incident. This step is effectively opening your claim.

When you seek medical care or an evaluation of your workplace injuries, most care providers will gather your information and that of your employer and bill their services directly to the worker’s compensation program. This is a significant benefit to victims, as it ensures they are not faced with massive medical expenses and credit issues while the payments to the care providers are being processed.

Even with these processes in place, the victim needs to contact worker’s compensation to ensure the claim was opened on their behalf and this insurance will cover them. If, for some reason, the claim was not opened or was incorrect, you must sort out the issues within the first 30 days after your injuries, or you will not be eligible for coverage and benefits from workers’ compensation. If you have questions or concerns about your claim or that it was opened and is processing correctly, please reach out to the staff at Normandie Law Firm to learn more and seek assistance from our caring and skilled legal team.

What Injuries Does Worker’s Comp Cover?
Worker’s compensation was created to eliminate the burden of any workplace injury suffered by an employee who was simply doing their job. The coverage is very broad and will protect you from an accident injury or even an injury that occurs over time due to factors such as overly loud noise degrading your hearing or repetitive motion causing muscular injuries. Typically, the coverage is based on the description of your injuries by a medical professional who verifies the harm occurred while you were working at Walmart.

Some of the more common Walmart workplace injuries include harm caused by trip and fall, slip and fall, or falling object injuries and include:

• Broken or shattered bones
• Damage to the connective tissue of joints or complete joint dislocations
• Soft tissue and nerve damage
• Burns
• Back and neck injuries
• Concussions
• Lacerations, puncture wounds, or skin abrasions

These are the average injuries which often result in compensation ranging from $2K to $20K to cover medical treatment and lost income. However, there are also more severe injuries that can occur while working at Walmart that would result in larger compensation amounts due to the extensive medical care and cost of these services. Some of the most severe Walmart workplace injuries include:

• Damage to the spinal cord
• Severe lacerations or puncture wounds that involve damage to internal organs and internal bleeding
• Facial injuries involving the eyes, ears, nose, or mouth
• Head injuries that range from a brain contusion or brain hemorrhage to the most severe traumatic brain injuries

In these cases, the benefits received by the injury victim can reach well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars or the maximum compensation of $1M due to the severity of the harm sustained.

What If My Boss Tried To Prevent Me From Opening A Walmart Worker’s Comp Claim?
No employer of their staff is permitted to prevent an injured employee from contacting worker’s compensation or opening a claim. If your boss or anyone at Walmart tried to prevent you from seeking the benefits provided by worker’s comp, please contact Normandie Law Firm today. Our skilled team of worker’s compensation attorneys will work with you and the worker’s comp program to ensure you get the benefits you deserve. But please act quickly to ensure the 30-day time limit to open a claim has not expired.

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The team at Normandie Law Firm understands the hardships and stress faced by injured Walmart workers. We want you to know that you never need to face these struggles alone. Our staff is not intimidated by the large legal team that represents Walmart and we will never back down if they are trying to prevent our clients from getting the compensation or benefits they deserve after a Walmart workplace injury.

While most workplace injury cases opened with worker’s comp prevent the victim from also filing a personal injury lawsuit against their employer, please know that the involvement of gross negligence could allow you to also pursue legal action against Walmart. In these cases, Normandie Law Firm will handle your case with no upfront legal payments. Our firm only gets paid after the case is resolved, and you have the compensation needed to cover your legal costs and expenses. And if we fail to win the case, you owe us nothing. Please reach out to our staff today to learn more.

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