What is a workers' compensation claim?
If you are injured on the job, or if you contract a disease from your job, the law entitles you to workers’ compensation benefits. Your injury or disease must be a result of your job. For example, if you happen to be at work and have a heart attack that is not caused by your work, you will not be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits.
Your benefits can include compensation for such things as lost wages, medical expenses, permanent disability, and vocational rehabilitation. Workers’ compensation benefits do not include compensation for pain and suffering.
Workers' Compensation Claims
- What is a workers’ compensation claim?
- How do I get wage loss benefits?
- Can I get the medical treatment I want?
- Will my medical expenses be paid promptly?
- Who pays attorney fees?
- What if my claim is denied?
- When will my claim be closed?
- Do I have any rights after my claim is closed?
- Can my employer’s insurance company require me to be examined by the company’s doctor?
- Can workers’ compensation claims be settled?
- Do I get compensated for pain and suffering?