{"id":124,"date":"2013-02-25T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2013-02-25T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:40:29","slug":"controversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/controversions\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Workers Compensation cases, the first question most attorneys ask when a prospective client calls is: \"Have you been controverted?\"<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">A controversion can be formal or informal.\u00a0 If the insurance company is obeying the law, it will send you a Controversion Notice explaining why it is no longer paying your benefits.\u00a0 The back side of the form sets out what your rights and obligations are if you wish to pursue a Claim before the Board.\u00a0 That information is very important, so read it.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand it, you can go to the Board\u2019s office and ask to speak to a legal tech.\u00a0 Or you can call an attorney.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Controversion-Notice.pdf\">Controversion Notice<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">An informal controversion is when the insurance company resists payment of benefits.\u00a0 For instance, the insurance company may refuse to preauthorize your surgery.\u00a0 Because it refuses to preauthorize your surgery, the doctor won\u2019t perform the operation.\u00a0 Suddenly you\u2019re stuck not being able to get the surgery that you need and you can\u2019t go back to work because your injury isn\u2019t fixed.\u00a0 Even if the insurance company is paying you temporary total disability or temporary partial disability, it\u2019s not enough to live on.\u00a0 And you fall farther and farther behind.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0Even if the insurance company has not formally controverted you, you are still entitled to file a Claim to recover your benefits and you can still find an attorney to help you, because once the insurance company has controverted you, or resisted payment of your benefits, and you are successful in obtaining benefits through the services of your attorney, the insurance company will have to pay your attorneys fees.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/faq-wc.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/faq-wc.html<\/span><\/span><\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Workers Compensation cases, the first question most attorneys ask when a prospective client calls is: \"Have you been controverted?\" A controversion can be formal or informal.\u00a0 If the insurance company is obeying the law, it will send you a Controversion Notice explaining why it is no longer paying your benefits.\u00a0 The back side of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/controversions\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Controversions\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-workers-compensation","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Controversions - Keenan Powell, Attorney at Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/controversions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Controversions - Keenan Powell, Attorney at Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Workers Compensation cases, the first question most attorneys ask when a prospective client calls is: &quot;Have you been controverted?&quot; 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