Under current Virginia Workers Compensation law, you cannot get a Temporary Total Disability (“TTD”) weekly check at the same time you are getting a full Permanency weekly check. A Permanency Award is given when an employee permanently loses the function of a body part or limb. Once the doctor writes that the patient has reached…
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Injured workers have a legal duty to look for work within their remaining physical abilities when they cannot return to their pre-injury jobs. Similar to the requirements in a personal injury case (“mitigating damages” ), an injured employee needs to do the best they can to reduce their losses. Under the Virginia Workers Compensation law,…
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The Virginia Workers’ Comp law says that if you lose the use of 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, etc., in an on-the-job accident, you can get compensation benefits beyond the 500 weeks. In a case handled by a friend, a worker lost one eye in an industrial accident, and then his other eye several…
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According to Herndon and Loudoun County Worker’s Compensation lawyer Doug Landau, the insurance company may be required to provide transportation. This is true when the doctors who are treating the injured worker indicate that she is not able to drive at all. Lawyer Landau has had cases where the insurance company paid for: cab fare,…
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Workers’ Compensation weekly payments under Virginia end after 500 weeks. It does not matter if these payments are for only partial wage loss, permanent impairment, or even amputation. However weekly payments from the workers’ compensation insurance company are paid, the 500-week limit is an artificial ceiling that really hurts younger, injured workers and the families…
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