Permanent Total Disability “PTD”: What if my work injury was so severe I am not able to go back to work? The Missouri Workers’ Compensation law accounts for injuries that eliminate workers’ from returning to work very differently from how it accounts for less severe injuries where they are reasonable able to return to work […]
To see our previous blog over Medical Treatment as a benefit, click here. Temporary Total Disability (“TTD”) Benefits If workers’ compensation authorizes a medical provider who takes an injured worker off work due to the work injury, that worker is considered to be totally disabled by the work injury for a temporary period of time. […]
The Medical Treatment Benefits in Missouri’s Workers’ Compensation Law This benefit allows injured workers to receive treatment necessary to cure or relieve the effects of their work injury without incurring bills or costs like co-pays or deductibles. The kicker, if you want the workers’ compensation insurer to pay, the law allows them to direct your […]
Missouri Workers’ Compensation Law In Missouri, Workers’ Compensation was created by the State Legislature many years ago to assist workers’ who suffer injuries, or acquire conditions, at work. For the most part, Missouri Workers’ Compensation does not give consideration to whose fault it might have been that the injury was suffered or condition acquired. Missouri […]
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Calculating your Average Weekly Wage to Identify Your PPD Rate This article will discuss how to calculate a PPD rate. I will also inform you how to know whether your PPD weekly rate will be capped by the Missouri Workers’ Compensation statute. The PPD Rate is the second of three variables necessary to use / […]
Missouri Workers’ Compensation Chart: INTERPRETING THE MISSOURI WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CHART, PART I: What Are the ‘Little Numbers’ Stamped All Over the Body on the Work Comp Chart? During free consultations with individuals injured while working in Missouri, or for a Missouri-based Employer, I will usually at some point evaluate the likely dollars-and-cents value of their […]