Workplace Injuries and Worker's Compensation Claims

The Workers' Compensation Act provides mandated insurance coverage to workers who are injured on the job.

The benefits under Workers' Comp can include weekly payments based on a percentage of the employee's average weekly wage for temporary total disability, partial disability, permanent and total disability and permanent loss of function and disfigurement. Workers' Comp also covers medical expenses for treatment that is reasonable, necessary and related to the industrial injury and vocational rehabilitation services.

Sadly, Workers' Compensation may be insufficient compensation especially in the case of very serious and long term personal injuries. In these cases it is necessary to look for a third party including manufacturer of the product that caused the injury, lack of safety devices or some other party who is at fault. Our lawyers can help locate third parties as well as handling the Workers' Comp benefits to which you may be entitled.

Workers compensation (or workers comp) provides compensation, without litigation, for workers injured or disabled on the job. Workers' compensation is insurance that provides cash benefits and/or medical care for workers who are injured or become ill as a direct result of their job. The Workers' Compensation Board is a state agency that processes the claims and determines, through a judicial proceeding, whether a worker will receive benefits and/or medical care, and how much he/she will receive. However, as many injured workers can tell you, workers compensation benefits are not always enough.

Typical New York on the job injuries include:

• Falls from ladders and scaffolds
• Machinery that is defective in
• Toxic chemical injuries
• Product liability
• Lead poisoning
• Construction Accidents
• Head injuries
• Death or dismemberment

An attorney's assistance may be desirable if the issues are complicated. If a lawsuit is necessary to get you the benefits that you deserve, you can also win damages for pain and suffering as well as lost wages. If a loved one died as a result of negligence, the employer can also be sued for wrongful death, which will provide directly for the dependents of the victim. The statue of limitations is short and the paperwork is complicated. Call the New York workplace injury attorney Leandros Vrionedes.