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Shaffer & Your Injury at Work: Do You Need More Financial Help?

If you were severely hurt on the job in West Virginia, and the incident involved hazards at your workplace that your employer knew about and should have corrected, you may have a personal injury claim.

For an injury that’s long-lasting or life-changing, this is a crucial way to secure your financial future.

Most West Virginia workers don’t realize you can file this kind of case. An injury at work usually limits you to workers’ compensation insurance benefits. You are prohibited under workers’ comp law from suing your employer.

It takes glaring recklessness on the part of your employer—or sometimes a contractor or other vendor who caused the unsafe conditions at your workplace—to trigger a personal injury case and the possibility of greater compensation.

Have an experienced workplace injury lawyer, with deep knowledge of workers’ injury law, look at your case. See what you can do with Shaffer & You.

Shaffer & Shaffer attorneys have more than 200 years of combined experience in the law. Our Charleston and Madison law firm has been helping West Virginians for more than a century.

You can’t undo how this trauma disrupted your life, but you deserve every available form of support going forward.

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Picking up a heavy bag in a room under construction, a worker winces and puts his hand on his back. Any type of West Virginia worker can qualify for a claim under workers' injury law.

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Workers’ Injury Law and West Virginia’s Industries

Workers in any of West Virginia’s major employers and industries could have claims under workers’ injury law.

Our workplace injury attorneys help people from all these jobs and more:

Agriculture
Chemical plants
Coal mining
Construction
Forestry and timber
Health care and Hospitals
Manufacturing
Oil and gas industry
Retail
Service industry
Transportation
Warehouse work

When you’re pursuing a personal injury case for an injury at work, unlike workers’ comp, you need to prove negligence by your employer or someone else at your job site. Workers’ comp doesn’t factor in whether anyone was at fault.

To show negligence, you have to meet a high standard. Your employer or another negligent person or company must have deliberately exposed you to extremely dangerous conditions in violation of state or federal laws.

How do you prove that? A lawyer who knows injury-at-work law does that work for you.

If you aren’t sure, you don’t have to make any commitments or pay anything to talk to the West Virginia personal injury lawyers at Shaffer & Shaffer for an initial review to see if your case might meet the standards.

And you pay no attorney fee until you win compensation.

After a life-shattering injury at work, let us help you rebuild.

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A man wearing a hard hat sits on the floor in a building under construction, closes his eyes and rubs is forehead. Shaffer & Shaffer workers' injury lawyers help people in West Virginia.

How an Injury at Work Claim Can Secure More Compensation for You

The main benefits you can get for an injury at work under the traditional workers’ comp system are medical treatment for your injury and a portion of the wages you miss when you can’t work.

But personal injury law, which allows you to seek different kinds of damages, could ultimately give you more, including:

Future medical costs
Future assistance taking care of yourself
Future lost wages
Loss of earning capacity if your injury leaves you unable to make as much
Compensation for the inconvenience your injury caused you
Compensation for the pain and suffering you’ve endured
Compensation for permanent disability from a catastrophic injury
Wrongful death, if a loved one died from an accident at work

So much is at stake when your life has been turned upside down because of a major injury at work.

Don’t let anyone tell you to settle for less than the maximum financial relief available, so you can lead a more secure life. Shaffer & Shaffer has negotiated multi-million-dollar settlements and taken hundreds of cases to trial.

We will never sell you out for a quick fee.

Our workplace injury lawyers carry on a 100-year legacy of putting clients’ needs first—always.

Shaffer & You: Why Work with Us?

Everyday West Virginians can get legal help from one of the most established and respected law firms in the state: Shaffer & Shaffer. Our firm is over a century old and still going strong because we put the needs of our clients first—always.

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Have a Question about Personal Injury Claims?

After a life-altering accident, you’re understandably upset, confused and full of questions. To help you get a sense of what’s next, we’ve prepared answers to common questions about personal injury claims and other legal cases.

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