In Mississippi Injured Workers Do Not Have to Move to Apply for a Job

by Jay Foster, Mississippi Workers Compensation Attorney

In Mississippi Workers Compensation accidents, there are certain injuries which are permanent disability cases. In this instance, an injured Mississippi worker should secure the services of a competent Mississippi Workers Compensation Attorney. The failure to do this can mean the inability to obtain any sort of settlement.

For example, what insurance companies like to do when an injured employee is hurt at work and potentially permanently disabled is claim that an employee must move to another part of the State or even move to a different State in order to obtain employment, even if the employee is totally unskilled in the job which they allegedly may obtain. The idea that a person should have to uproot their entire family to obtain a job in which they may be totally unskilled, making the likelihood of obtaining that job tenuous at best, is simply wrong.

This is simply not the law. The Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals has repeatedly held that an injured worker's duty to get a comparable job does not require an employee to move to another part of the state or out of state. Of course, the employee must "cast his eyes further than across the street" when applying for a job. Goobsby Trucking Company and Fleet Force v. Alexander, Mississippi Court of Apeals, 2007-WC-00026-COA, 2008.