Workers' Compensation is insurance paid for by employers to cover on-the-job injuries. State law requires employer to have such insurance or make other arrangements to pay for on-the-job injuries. Workers' suffering from work related injuries or diseases are entitled to wage-loss and medical expense benefits arising as a result of the injury or disease.

You must notify your employer immediately of your work-related injury or illness. Any delay in notification may jeopardize your ability to receive benefits. Notice to your employer may be given orally or in writing. In your own self-interest, DO NOT submit to a recorded statement and DO NOT sign any documents given to you by your employer or by your employer's insurance carrier until you are able to have them reviewed by a competent workers' compensation attorney.

Injured workers are entitled to lost wages if applicable and medical care, to include doctor visits, physical therapy, prescription drugs, hospitalization, testings and travel expenses to and from all doctors appointments.

Temporary total disability (TTD) compensation is paid as a percentage of the injured employee's gross average weekly earnings, including overtime, while the employee is off work by order of a physician as a result of a work-related injury or illness. If you hold a second job and the employer for whom you were working at the time you were injured is aware that you work this second job, your temporary disability payments are based on the gross income from both jobs.

Workers' compensation pays for a portion of lost wages and medical care provided to employees who are injured on the job. Workers' compensation also compensates employees who suffer permanent disability or disfigurement. It is a no-fault approach which limits the employer's liability to those benefits provided by the Workers' Compensation Act. It is an inclusive remedy for on-the-job injuries.

The employer pays the cost of the workers’ compensation benefits for injured employees or their families. Most employers have insurance that covers the cost of providing injured employees with workers' compensation benefits. In Massachusetts, an injured employee may bring a personal injury action under Tort Law in the Civil Courts against an employer who did not have workers compensation insurance when the employee was injured.

Workers' Compensation makes two types of benefits available to a worker injured in the course of employment. The first type of benefit covers health care needed by a worker as a result of an injury. The second compensates a worker for impairment suffered as a result of an injury, whether temporary or permanent.

Employees who receive a paycheck from Georgetown University are eligible to receive workers' compensation insurance including full-time, part-time, and Hoya Temps.

When an employee is injured in the course of his/her employment and requires medical treatment, and/or loses wages as a result of the work related injury, workers' compensation benefits are paid by NYSIF on behalf of the injured worker's employer. You are entitled to "medical benefits" and "compensation benefits.

Workers compensation insurance provides for the well being of your employee's and promotes a positive work environment. Be aware that some states have passed laws that makes Workers Compensation mandatory once a business expands to four or more employees on payroll. Workers compensation insurance was created in order to pay employees. medical expenses and loss of wages in the event of a job related injury or sickness.

Unfortunately, workers' compensation is subject to the political process as well as the legal process. Lawyers can only work within the system that is given to them by the legislatures. It is up to injured workers and others to change the political system so that injured workers receive better benefits. It is up to you. Your lawyer has no more voice in changing the law than you do.

No, not if you are receiving temporary total or permanent total disability benefits as you must be medically able and available for work to qualify for unemployment. For additional information on Unemployment Compensation, you may want to utilize the Unemployment Compensation website at: http://www.floridajobs.org/.

Yes. However an offset, or reduction in your workers' compensation check may be applied because the law states that the two combined may not exceed 80 percent of your average weekly wage earned prior to your injury. For further information on Social Security, you may contact the Social Security Administration at (800) 772-1213 or visit their website at http://www.ssa.gov/.

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In most states, employers are required to purchase insurance for their employees from a workers' compensation insurance company -- also called an insurance carrier. However, in some states, smaller companies (with fewer than three or four employees) are not required to carry workers' compensation insurance. In some states, larger employers who are clearly solvent are allowed to self-insure, or act as their own insurance companies.

Yes, once an injured worker has reached MMI, it means that they are released to return to work, so the insurance carrier will no longer be liable for lost wages. Also, the injured worker will have a $10 co-pay for all future medical appointments. The workers' compensation carrier will also have to pay benefits to the injured worker based on the PPI rating, if one was given.

Yes, your workers' compensation benefits do not stop if you are terminated. However, if you are able to work, the workers' compensation provider will require a job search to be completed for lost wages to continue to be paid. Temporary Total Benefits: These benefits are provided as a result of an injury the temporarily prevents you from returning to work, and you have not reached MMI.

You may be entitled to receive all reasonable and necessary medical treatment, benefits for lost wages, benefits for specific injuries resulting in permanent losses such as loss of use of an extremity and/or disfigurement (scars). You may also qualify to participate in certain physical and vocational rehabilitation programs. If the injury causes the death of an injured worker, burial expenses are covered and the spouse and/or dependents of the deceased worker may be entitled to certain benefits.