Nancy J. Wallace

Nancy has more than 30 years of experience in workers comp in the Inland Empire, starting as a law clerk defending Comp Insurance Companies, watching insurance companies refuse help people seriously hurt at work. In 1994, she left defense to represent only injured workers. Nancy knows what it is to be injured and trying to work and support a family. In the Inland Empire 30 years, Nancy knows which physicians and facilities truly help injured workers (and which ones just give lip service but no help). Nancy answers questions for workers throughout the state on Avvo.com, LawGuru.com, and on her website: www.imhurt.info.

• Free Consultation
• Contingent Fees
  YOU don't ever write me a check; the Judge orders the insurer to pay me after I help you get paid on your claim.
• Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
  Workers Comp fees are just 15%, NOT 40% like personal injury attorneys. NO FEE IS PAID UNTIL YOUR CLAIM CLOSES. [You never pay the fee directly...the insurer pays a part of your award to the attorney, per the judge's order.]

California

Since 1989

Federal Circuit

Since 1990

Owner

Nancy Wallace, Attorney at Law

1996 - Current

Represented Injured Workers and Physicians and Diagnostic Facilities before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

Judge Pro Tem, Small Claims Court

County of San Bernardino Superior Court

1998 - 2002

Small Claims Court matters

Attorney

Kegel Tobin & Truce

1995 - 1996

Defended Travelers, School Districts in Workers' Compensation actions across Calif.

Attorney

Mark & Bolson

1991 - 1994

Workers' Compensation defense for The Hartford, Farmers, County of Riverside, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino City School District.

Attorney

Parker & Dally

1987 - 1991

Workers Compensation Defense PLUS Estate Planning

Western State College of Law at Argosy University

J.D. | Law

1985 - 1988

Honors: American Jurisprudence Award, Criminal Procedure; Editor, The Dictum (Student newspaper); Honors Moot Court

Activities: Women's Law Association; Latino Student Bar Assoc.

Three Best Rated San BErnardino Employment Lawyers

ThreeBest

2017

Honored as one of the best 3 Employment Law attorneys in the San Bernardino Valley.

Top Contributor Award

Avvo

2017

Found to be a Top Contributor by peers on Avvo for outstanding answers to Workers Compensation questions

Client's Choice Award

Avvo

2012

Clients' Favorite Workers Compensation attorney for 2012

San Bernardino County Bar Association

Member

Current

Lawyers of Distinction

Member

2017 - Current

Calif. Applicants' Attorneys assoc.

member

2012 - Current

American Bar Assoc.

Member

2010 - Current

Activities: Law Day

Workers Comp: Welcome to Outer Space, Law Day, Anaheim

June 10, 2016

Handel on the Law

A talk on the new regulations for securing medications and treatment under the current workers comp laws, and why adjusters get to deny medication and doctor visits and how to fix that.

Q. Concerns about workers' comp settlement signed before MMI in California.

February 24, 2025

A: You have only 20 days after a judge issues an order to appeal. You may appeal later based on fraud, but you have to hand back all the settlement payment . Then you have to show the judge that someone gave you falsehoods to obtain your signatures. If you knew there was a chance a report would rate high but you took the settlement early because you needed cash, that's not fraud.

Q. Can I collect unemployment benefits after I won my workers comp case after being denied onthe first weeks of the injury

January 30, 2025

A: Unemployment requires you were physically able to accept an offer of work. If you were injured and needed treatment, you may not have been able to accept work. If you were awarded Temporary Disability payments for those weeks, its a crime to now request Unemployment Benefits for those same weeks.

Q. Can the workers compensation doctor force you to go back to work if you are on disability?

May 22, 2024

A: The solution is to elect a worker-friendly physician from the insurer's Medical Provider Network BEFORE the insurer sends you to their doctor. You do not have to see the doctor the employer chooses or the adjuster chooses; you can go to the MPN List for the Comp Insurer and select a real physician from the list who will write that you are either temporarily totally disabled or temporarily partially disabled but only able to perform desk work. If you decline desk work, then the employer doesn't have to pay you wages nor does the insurer have to pay you any temporary disability indemnity. The Adjuster and the Workers Comp Judge only have to award/pay what the treating physician writes and what the QME writes, so those physicians have to be selected with the utmost care. If you just grab any guy off the list, you'll be returned to full duty in pain and wonder why. Know all about a doctor before you go there. ... Read More