So, not only do you not pay upfront, or should you pay upfront, it is illegal for any workers' compensation attorney in New York State to ask you for a dollar. Okay? All of our fees are paid out by the insurance company. Workers' compensation fee is a standard fee in New York State. The fee is 15%, barring some unforeseen circumstances. Those circumstances will be lower, not higher. The fees are never higher than 15%. We don't charge for expenses. Is is not like a lawsuit where we expense certain things. The fee is the fee is it's paid out by the insurance company based solely on the awards we get for you.
If you're being paid voluntarily, right, if you're out of work, we don't get a penny from that. We don't get paid in that at all. We only get paid if we have to go to court to fight to get you more money than they're paying you, if they're paying the incorrect amount, which happens quite a bit, or if they reduce your payments and we have to go to trial to pick up either retroactive or going forward, or if there's a settlement, and the fee will be 15% of that. And that fee is set by the judge and paid out by the insurance company.
But I'll reiterate again, never ever pay, you know, New York State workers' compensation is never pay an attorney out of pocket. It's not flicker.
