If you have a compensable workmans comp claim, you'll usually receive a benefit that is equal to 66 percent, or two-thirds of your regular wages or salary. This is typically a gross dollar amount (ordinarily, taxes on workers compensation benefits do not have to paid until a worker is released to work or it has been determined that a worker's injury has resulted in a level of permanent incapacity).
Hower, there are other issues that play into the process and they involve whether or not a worker's accident-or-injury-related impairments are temporary or permanent, and total or partial.
For example, a worker filing for workers compensation benefits may be found to have sustained a permanent impairment, but one that only renders the worker partially disabled. In such cases, the worker may only be able to return to his or her employment in a capacity that pays less. Workers comp, in those instances, would pay the difference between what a worker formerly earned and then later earned as a result of a job related accident or injury.
Such payments are often referred to as temporary partial disability payments and they may be
limited to a maximum weekly amount which a worker can receive, as well as a maximum number of weeks for which the worker can be paid.
Workers may also receive a workmans comp lump sum settlement, based on the degree of impairment suffered (such as the loss of a finger due to a work-related accident). And, in cases where permanent and total incapacity is the end result, the lump sum settlement will typically take into account a worker's earnings and projected life expectancy.
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