Your Workers’ Compensation Benefits

If you are injured on the job, your employer is obligated to provide you with benefits. You may have been injured while outside your employer's place of business. The injury may have taken a second, a minute, a year, ten years or your entire employment to occur. You may even have been at fault. But if you were working for your employer at the time of the injury, you are entitled to workers' compensation benefits.

Temporary Disability

If you are injured at work, your employer is obligated to provide you with benefits such as:

• Compensation
• Medical treatment
• Modified Work

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Permanent Disability

If your work injury has left you permanently disabled in any way, your employer must provide you with benefits such as:

• Compensation for any work restrictions
• Future medical care
• Lifetime pension for serious injuries

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Medical Care

Your employer must provide you with medical care for your work injury. You can be treated by a doctor or facility chosen by your employer or you may select your own treating doctor or facility. If you are dissatisfied with the treatment provided by your employer, you are entitled to chose your own facility.

 

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Reimbursement for Mileage

Your employer is obligated to pay you for mileage and parking to and from your treating doctor, pharmacy or facility providing you with vocational rehabilitation.

 

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Death Benefits

If your death is work-related, benefits, including burial and funeral expenses, will be paid to your dependents.

 

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Penalties

If the insurance company mishandles any part of your claim, you may be entitled to additional monies from the penalties which it will have to pay.

 

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