Under the Florida Workers Compensation Law, lost wage benefits are paid based upon disability from a work-related injury. What is disability? Disability means you are unable to earn the same wages you were earning at the time of injury. To prove disability you need to show a casual connection between
There are two broad categories of Workers’ Compensation benefits: indemnity benefits, which cover lost wages or reduced earnings; and medical benefits, including treatment, prescriptions, equipment, attendant care expenses, and mileage reimbursement. What is a care attendant? A lot of people don’t think about it, but attendant care can be a
Under the Florida Workers Compensation Law, benefits are paid based upon disability. What is disability? Disability means you are unable to earn the same wages you were earning at the time of injury due to injury. To prove disability you need to show a casual connection between your loss of
Under the Florida Workers Compensation Law, benefits are paid based upon disability. What is disability? Disability means an “incapacity because of the injury to earn in the same or any other employment the wages which the employer is receiving at the time of the injury”. In other words, you need
In Florida, the burden is on injured workers to prove that they suffered a workplace accident. For all injuries, an injured worker needs to prove disability by a reasonable degree of medical certainty based on objective relevant medical findings; and also that the accident is the “major contributing cause” of
What if you get injured on the job and cannot return to work? You tell your supervisor about your injury right after it happens. He/she does not give you any instruction. You seek treatment at the local emergency room or urgent care center. But then you do not hear anything
Workers’ compensation in Florida is a no-fault system. The injured worker does not have to prove that the accident was not their fault in order to obtain benefits. The employer must pay benefits regardless of fault. In exchange for this, employers are not liable for pain and suffering and other
Workers’ Compensation benefits generally fall into one of two categories. Benefits are either for lost time or reduced wages, referred to as “indemnity” benefits; or are for medical benefits which include treatment, prescriptions, apparatus’s, mileage reimbursement among other things. This article is going to focus on indemnity benefits. You may
Workers’ Compensation benefits generally fall into one of two categories. Benefits are either for lost or reduced wages, referred to as “indemnity” benefits; or are for medical which include treatment, prescriptions, apparatus’s, mileage reimbursement among other things. This article is going to focus on indemnity benefits. You may be able
Proving the happening of an accident under Florida’s workers’ compensation law is not always an easy thing, but it is even more difficult when there was no actual accident or incident that you can pinpoint. In other words, if you fell off of a ladder, tripped or slipped, and fell
