Reopening a Workers' Compensation Claim with Jason D. Mills, Esq.

After a workers’ compensation claim is closed, Nevada laws place restrictions on lifetime reopening the claim unless the injured worker was off incapacitated from earning full wages for 5 or more days or on permanent partial disability. For all other injured workers, a workers' compensation claim must be reopened within one year after the claim was closed. If medical costs paid before the claim was closed are less than $800, the claim cannot be reopened.

Navigating the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act, or Occupational Disease Act, is no small task. It's not only getting them the medical benefits that they're entitled to, and the indemnity or monetary benefits they're entitled to, but we're also making sure that when that claim is over when it closes when it's done, it's procedurally and factually set up as best as possible for the future.