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If you are injured while on the job, it’s likely that you are entitled to compensation for wage loss, medical treatment, rehabilitation, job retraining and other benefits that your employer and the insurance companies may not want you to know about. Persons with pre-existing medical conditions which are aggravated in the course of employment may also be entitled to work comp benefits. Let Peter Woll’s workers compensation experience and proven record of success work for you.
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Injured workers file workers’ comp claims to collect workers compensation benefits. These benefits pay injured workers for such things as medical costs arising from the injury as well as compensation for lost wages due to disability.
The amount of money paid to a worker who becomes disabled due to a workplace injury depends on the nature of the injury. Factors affecting benefit payouts include the severity of the disability and whether the injury is permanent. For example, a worker who is permanently and totally disabled will never be able to return to work and will receive more compensation than a worker who is only temporarily disabled.
Under Michigan workers’ compensation law, an employee who suffers an injury that leaves him totally incapacitated is typically entitled to 80 percent of his or her average weekly wage. For employees who are only partially incapacitated, compensation tends to be 80 percent of the difference between the employee’s weekly wages before the injury and the employee’s weekly wages after the injury.
In addition, injured workers must wait seven days before receiving workers’ compensation. However, if the worker remains disabled for two weeks after the injury occurs, he or she can collect payment for those days after the injury occurred for which payment was not received. This is known as retroactive compensation.