Workers Compensation

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at induce “permanent labor market handicap-enable he or she to receive permanent disability benefits” (Division par 7). In conjunction with permanent disability the employee is entitled to benefits bases on the Permanent Disability Rating Schedule which specifies “standard percentage ratings for permanent impairments and limitations, and provides the modification of these standard ratings based on the injured worker’s age and occupation” (Division par. 9). According to the Permanent disability Rating Schedule: an arm lost is 312 weeks’ compensation, a leg lost is 288 weeks’ compensation, a foot lost is 205 weeks compensation, and an eye lost is 160 weeks’ compensation (Compensation Schedule). In order to receive permanent disability benefits an employee must be assessed by the treating physician or a “Qualified Medical Evaluator” (Division par. 10). Injured workers who are unable to return to their former type of work are entitled to “vocational rehabilitation services if these services can reasonably expected to return the worker to suitable gainful employment; this includes the development of a suitable plan, the cost of any training, and a maintenance allowance while participating in rehabilitation” (Division par. 11). Vocational rehabilitation services are similar to temporary disability, in the ways that the injured worker is paid until he or she returns to work. Supplemental job displacement benefits is a nontransferable voucher for an employee to receive educational related training or skill enhancement or both; payable to a state-approved or accredited school. To qualify for this benefit an employee must be disabled from work for up to sixty days after temporary disability ends and the employer has not offered modified or alternative work. The last type of workers’ compensation benefits would be death benefits. However this is beneficial to the dependants of the dead employee. The amount of support dep...