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Workers Compensation Benefits

If You Are Injured in an Accident or Suffer from an Occupational Disease at Work, You Are Entitled to Receive the Following Types of Workers' Compensation Benefits:

Lifelong Medical Treatment: Your employer is responsible for paying for all medical care necessary to treat your injury.

This includes all forms of care and treatment, whether hospital, medical, therapy, nursing, diagnostic testing, surgery, physical rehabilitation, or pain management.

The right to medical care and treatment continues for the rest of your life for conditions related to your accidental injury or occupational disease.

  • Cash Payments While You Recover and Cannot Work: While you are healing and unable to work, you will receive cash payments to replace your usual earnings. The amount of your payment is based on your average weekly earnings when hurt or disabled.

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  • Vocational Rehabilitation: Once you have reached your full level of recovery, if your physical condition does not allow you to return to your old job, your employer must provide you vocational rehabilitation services.

We are a workmans comp law firm A vocational assessment will be held to examine: * your age * education * past work experiences * remaining physical abilities * your interests and desires Followed by needed job training and job placement help.

The goal of vocational rehabilitation is to maximize your income when you return to the workplace.

  • Cash Payments for Permanent Disability: If your accidental injury or occupational disease causes a permanent impairment, you are entitled to a cash award for the resulting disability.

The amount of the award is based on the part or parts of the body involved, the nature and extent of your disability, and the amount of your average weekly earnings when you were hurt or disabled. They pay permanent disability benefits weekly at a rate established by law.

  • Additional Disability Benefits If Your Condition Worsens: You can "reopen" your claim after an initial disability award if the injury worsens. The request to reopen your claim must be made within five years of the date on which you last received disability benefits.


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  • Death: If a worker dies of an accidental injury or occupational disease, dependents of the worker are entitled to an award to compensate for the lost earnings.

The amount of the award depends on whether the dependents were totally or partially dependent. Funeral expenses are also provided.
 


The Law Offices of James Lee Katz, P.A.

Baltimore County
11A Gwynns Mill Court
Owings Mills, MD 21117
Carroll County
197 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157
Baltimore City
26 South Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

Tel: 443-394-0900

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