George S. Henderson, Attorney

GEORGE HENDERSON has practiced law for 30 years. The law firm staff consists of two attorneys, one hearing representative, five paralegal assistants and two clerk/receptionists. The firm maintains offices in Long Beach and Garden Grove. For persons unable to travel to one of the two offices, the firm's investigator will travel to you.

GEORGE HENDERSON'S philosophy of workers compensation legal representation is that "THE INJURED WORKER SHOULD NOT GET HURT TWICE". (1) You got hurt at work - That's once. (2) If you try to represent yourself, the employer's insurance carrier will use an attorney to defeat your claim, or at the least take advantage of your lack of knowledge and experience in the claims process and litigation process - that would mean getting hurt "twice".

DON'T GET HURT TWICE!

(3) If you hire the wrong attorney who doesn't communicate with you, and doesn't know how to get you the best medical treatment, or doesn't have a track record in getting good settlements, or handles too many files and just doesn't care - that would mean getting hurt "twice".

GEORGE HENDERSON has a proven reputation for getting bigger settlements for his clients, and for getting excellent medical treatment for his clients.

1. George Henderson's goal is to get the injured worker treated by doctors who are sympathetic to the needs of a person hurt at work, and to get away from the company doctors, and the Medical Provider Networks (MPN) which tend to be populated by defense oriented doctors.
2. He also has a goal of using doctors who have a track record of writing medical reports which are favorable to the injured worker, and can be used to achieve the maximum settlement value in the case.
3. In 2005 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a comprehensive new workers compensation law. George Henderson made a point of educating himself in the new law, so that he is able to use the new law to maximize the settlement value of each workers compensation claim. For example, whereas the former law only emphasized injuries to the musculoskeletal system of the body, the new law mandates treatment of the whole person.
   GEORGE HENDERSON uses the new law concept of "treating the whole person" to build the settlement value of the case. Thus if the person injured at work has internal medicine complaints such as elevated blood pressure, or elevated blood sugar due to inactivity and stress following a job injury, these injuries can be added to the traditional orthopedic injuries to greatly increase the value of the case.
4. GEORGE HENDERSON also recognizes the fact that a worker injured on the job who has been given disability leave from work, will typically suffer depression and anxiety. The mere fact of having to live with pain, and sleep loss contributes to feelings of depression and anxiety. Worry about an uncertain future almost always results in anxiety. GEORGE HENDERSON always includes claims for psychiatric injury where his clients injured at work have such complaints. This provides much needed therapy and also increases the settlement value of the claim.
5. The above reference to injury related depression and anxiety is to be distinguished from the work injury claim classified as "job stress." Job stress occurs when work conditions, or a hostile work environment result in psychiatric injury while the injured employee is still at work.
6. GEORGE HENDERSON has always gotten big settlements for his clients. For example, in 2004 and again in 2006 for two different clients, GEORGE HENDERSON obtained settlements in excess of $2,000,000.00. In his years of practice GEORGE HENDERSON has obtained many millions of dollars in settlement for clients who were hurt at work.