While any workplace injury or illness can have serious consequences, it may be somewhat comforting to know that Minnesota does provide workers’ compensation benefits for qualifying employees.
However, even when you know your basic rights, you may not comprehend the full extent of the benefits you could be entitled to receive according to Minnesota workers’ compensation claims concerning lost wages.
There are various categories available by law, including lost wages that you miss out on when you’re unable to work.
When you don’t understand the nature of your workers’ compensation benefits, you risk leaving money on the table.
Under the circumstances, it’s wise to retain an experienced workers’ compensation lawyer to assist with filing your claim.
Our team at Criminal Defense Attorney & Workers Compensation Law Offices of Arechigo & Stokka has extensive knowledge of how the system functions, especially with respect to your lost wages.
We’re prepared to pursue all available monetary benefits, to ensure you have the financial support you need to recover and get back to work.
Please contact our St. Paul office to set up a no-cost consultation with
Some general information may also be useful.
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Types of Wage Loss Benefits
Assuming an insurance company accepts a claim, you may be entitled to wage loss benefits. If your doctor says that you are completely incapable of working or puts you on restrictions, and your employer has no work available within those restrictions, you’d be entitled to a benefit called temporary total disability benefits.
What that means is that you get two-thirds of your average weekly wage as long as you continue to be on those restrictions. If at some point your doctor says you can go back to work part-time, and your employer allows that to happen, you would get two-thirds of the difference between the old average weekly wage and what you’re making part-time.
If you suffer from a very severe injury, you may be entitled to something called permanent total disability benefits. What this means is if you can prove very definitive certain factors, depending on the circumstances of your case, you would get two-thirds of your average weekly wage up until the age of retirement.
It’s important to contact a lawyer about this because there’s not an insurance company that would voluntarily pay that type of benefit. Another type of benefit that you may be entitled to be called permanent partial disability benefits.
State law has put a percentage on certain body parts. For example, if you were to lose a finger at work, state law says that it is worth a percentage.
And what you do is you multiply that percentage times a lump sum, and then you’d get a check for whatever that amount is. It’s very dependent on what state law is and what your doctor says.
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