Protecting Your Business: WhoCanISue.Com and Employee Claims
Generally we try to discuss legislation, laws, cases, and legal principles that might benefit your company. Today we are here to discuss the changing face of litigation and risk for your construction company.
Two major employee problems face contractors: Workers Compensation and Labor & Wage Disputes. In the past, hiring an attorney required that an employee have financial resources, time to meet face to face, and a personal rapport with their attorney - its just not that way anymore.
Websites like WhoCanISue.Com have made it easier for your employees to seek frivolous claims against contractors. This website, for instance, has pull-down menus to select types of disputes, and then utilizes questionnaires in order to build simple facts about a potential dispute.
New technologies in electronic communications assist you with your attorney relations, but they also make finding an attorney, communicating with an attorney, and sharing information with an attorney very simple for your employees.
Our firm shares no opinion on the ethical value of sites like WhoCanISue.Com. In fact Wolfe Law and our founder Scott G. Wolfe, Jr. have vehemently opposed lawyer advertising restraints, winning a successful challenge against the Louisiana Bar Association and proposed online advertising restraints in August 2009. We are very much thankful for the success of web-based advertising.
But, we understand that your business is never safe from legal troubles. Sites like WhoCanISue.Com, whether or not they provide a good service, make potential litigation over an injury or wage dispute a substantial likelihood.
We urge you and your company to take protective actions in order to preempt Workers Compensation or Labor & Wage Disputes. Check out articles we have previously posted about how to handle these predicaments head on, utilizing contracts and smart management.
Stay tuned to ConstructionLawMonitor.Com as well, we are always here for you and your company.
