Benefits Covered Under Worker’s Compensation

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Benefits Covered Under Workers Compensation
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• Have you been injured on the job and wondering
  what kind of benefits you'll receive?
• Every worker injured on the job is entitled to
  receive workers compensation benefits.
• Under workers compensation, injured employees
  are entitled to four kinds of benefits.
• Lets look at each of these benefits

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Weekly compensation benefit

• This benefit is given to compensate an injured
  victim for wages lost while the injury or illness
  makes it impossible for them to work.
• This benefit is classified into four types of
  disability benefits
• Temporary total disability
• Temporary partial disability
• Permanent total disability
• Permanent partial disability

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Permanent impairment benefit

• This benefit is awarded when an injury causes a
  permanent physical impairment.

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Medical treatment benefit

• An injured victim is entitled to receive medical
  benefits workers compensation, such as, hospital
  and medical expenses.
• If a victim needs equipment to help deal with
  their injury, workers compensation may also
  cover the cost of buying that equipment.
• This benefit may also cover services like
  counseling, pain therapy, and acupuncture.

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Vocational rehabilitation benefit

• If a victim is unable to return to their previous
  line of work, the workers compensation insurer
  must pay for retraining so that the victim is
  able to join a new line of work.

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• If you have been hurt as a result of a workplace
  accident, the legal team at The Reinken Law Firm
  can give you the assistance you need to recover
  the full compensation you deserve.

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