A workers' compensation claim allows an injured employee to collect benefits in case of an on-the-job injury, including medical benefits as well as indemnity payments for time lost from work. During ...

Workers’ compensation insurance pays lost wages and medical benefits to employees who develop work-related injuries or illnesses, regardless of fault.

Workers' compensation programs compensate employees injured on the job. During the workers' compensation process, a doctor assigns an injured employee a disability rating. This rating represents a ...

According to researchers, the study's findings were counterintuitive: Claimants with higher disability ratings – which suggest higher severity and less ability to work – fared better than those with ...

The majority in a 2-1 split Commonwealth Court decision determined that a workers' compensation judge's review of a claimant's impairment rating evaluation should have taken into account work ...

Since 1996, Section 306(a.2) of the Workers’ Compensation Act has offered a framework for litigating long term exposure to temporary total disability (“TTD”) benefits, through the use of impairment ...

What seemed like a simple story has become much more complicated, and we need your help. In 2017, the chief actuary of the main insurance industry rate-setting corporation for workers' compensation ...

If you experience an injury at work, the amount of compensation you receive depends on which impairment rating system is used, according to research from McMaster University and the Netherlands. The ...

For marine contractor Dutra Group, the $8.9-million pier substructure repair project put out to bid by the Port of San Francisco last year fit precisely in the company’s sweet spot. As did other ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The 6-1 ruling, issued last month, was a surprising and significant shakeup of the law, which distributes payments to workers as they recover from injuries sustained while on the job. “This is the ...