Workers' compensation provides financial support and medical care for employees injured on the job. This system ensures that injured workers receive two-thirds of their income while they recover. Additionally, it offers permanent disability payments and lifetime benefits for those unable to return to work.
Workers' compensation is a legal framework that provides benefits to employees who are injured while working. It covers medical expenses and a portion of lost wages during recovery.
You can typically receive two-thirds of your average weekly wage while you are unable to work due to your injury. The exact amount may vary based on your state's laws.
Yes, if you sustain a permanent partial disability, you may be eligible for ongoing benefits. This can include a lump sum payment or ongoing monthly payments depending on your situation.
Workers' compensation is a compensatory scheme that's built into the law to take care of, really, dependence of injured workers. Back in the late 1800s, state governments and other governmental agencies began to see that if a man was hurt on the job, his children and his wife had no income. So they began to sort of construct these ideas that are purely statutory to make sure that those children, those wives did not go hungry. And that persists to this day. So if you're injured on the job, you have a workers' compensation statute that will take care of you. It'll provide for your medical care. It'll provide for you to get two thirds of your income while you're not working and while you heal. It'll provide for a permanent partial disability payment when you have healed as well as you can. And if you can't go back to work and you can never return to work, then you can get a lifetime payment. We've been doing workers' compensation for very nearly 40 years. So if you have a question about workers' compensation, give us a call.
