Workers Comp Benefits
Illinois Workers' Compensation Medical Benefits AttorneyThere are three basic types of workers' compensation benefits in Illinois: Medical CareYou employer is required to pay your medical expenses, including first aid, office visits, surgical, and hospital care, and associated prescription medicine necessary to cure or relieve the effects of your injury or occupational illness. In some cases, physical, mental, and vocational rehabilitation may also be covered.Temporary Total Disability (TTD)If your qualifying injury or illness causes you to miss three or more days of work, your employer must begin paying you weekly compensation amounting to 66.66 percent of your average weekly wages for the previous year. In certain cases, you may also qualify for vocational training in order to return to work.Permanent Disability, Disfigurement and Death BenefitsA permanent total disability (PTD) is one which leaves the victim permanently unable to return to any type of work - or involves the permanent loss of both arms, both legs, both hands, both feet, both eyes, or any two of these body parts (one eye and one hand, for example). Payments are based on a schedule for specific body parts.If the work accident or occupational illness results in death, the worker's spouse and/or children are eligible to receive death benefits of 66.66 percent of the deceased employee's average weekly wage. Death benefits are capped at 25 years of weekly payments or $500,000, whichever is greater. Although workman's comp benefits sound straightforward, they can become very complicated, with many stipulations and exceptions. For authoritative advice on your workers' compensation claim, please contact a workers' compensation benefits attorney at Casey Woodruff & Associates for a free, no obligation consultation and case evaluation. We are authorities on Illinois workers' compensation. Our founder, Attorney Casey Woodruff, teaches classes to other attorneys about the complexities of the law. You can depend on our comprehensive knowledge of the law to help resolve your workers' compensation benefits issues as quickly as possible. Free Parking • Handicapped Accessible • Free Consultation |
