Workers Compensation News Description
Does anyone care about your Pennsylvania work related injury?
Suddenly your employer is the enemy. Blame it on their insurance company who doesn't want to pay. What can you do? Hire a PA law [...]
Workplace Safety: How to Protect Small Business Employees from Injury
Are you a small business? Have you been looking into things like small business medical insurance? Do you worry about everything that needs to be [...]
Do you have Penna work related cancer or leukemia?
Too many hard working employees toiled away at jobs without the realization that toxic exposure would kill them. That's simply not right for you or [...]
California company not responsible for permanent disability
The California Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of an injured electrician, affirming a lower court's ruling that an employer is not responsible for permanent [...]
What are Specific Loss Benefits?
A work injury that results in amputation can be compensated as a specific loss. This is also true of hearing loss and vision loss (one [...]
What is a benefit rate?
Usually your benefit rate is 2/3 of your average weekly wage. But there is a maximum, so you may not get 2/3 of what you [...]
Types of Benefits
Employment has its benefits. Generally we consider the following as parts of a claim: Lost Wage Earnings Specific Losses (e.g. loss of a finger) Death [...]
Timing of Payment of Benefits
If you are paid weekly, it is wrong for your benefits to be paid quarterly. Why is that? Well, you are supposed to be paid [...]
Total Disability – What is it?
Are you disabled if you can not perform the same job you had performed before your injury? Is that a total disability? The answer actually [...]
Partial Disability
If you are not toally disabled, then you must be partially disabled. That is how the workers compensation laws work. It is one or the [...]