Routinely that means getting a medical report on the injured worker that is favorable to the insured's position. The insurance company will pay huge sums of money to the doctor that fills out a fancy multi-page report asserting that you are faking your injury, or that it didn't happen at work, or that your condition has reached a plateau and you can go back to work. That report allows the insurance company to escape the claim and not be in bad faith. Such a report is commonplace. In direct contrast to the financial scarcity faced by workers' compensation lawyers, is the mammoth, wealthy insurance companies.
Insurance companies delay settlement until just before the hearing.
In some cases, if the amount being claimed by the injured worker is deemed to be conceded by the insurer, the injured worker's lawyer is not entitled to any fee. The lack of financial success is not the only factor limiting the number of workers compensation lawyers readily available. Insurance companies have some very sophisticated public relations departments that are trying to convince the public that workers' compensation claims are frivolous or even worse, fraudulent. This is simply not true. The insurance companies are merely trying to attach a negative stigma to those lawyers that actually have the guts to face them.