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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The District of Columbia’s highest appellate court has ruled against a pair of disabled employees who sought to have their disability benefits continue beyond 500 weeks. The workers’ consolidated appeal was unsuccessful, as Senior Judge Newman wrote the affirmance of the Compensation Review Board’s (“CRB”) interpretation of the DC Statute in denying the two employee’s…
Continue readingHerndon Lawyer Doug Landau recently advised several experienced comp attorneys that when an injured worker is “undocumented,” then he or she cannot receive disability benefits during partial disability. Virginia Trial Lawyer Landau explains that an undocumented worker CAN get a weekly benefits check while on TOTAL Disability. Furthermore, the Landau Law Shop’s founder pointed out that…
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