Permanent Disability
An employee injured on the job in Arizona may be eligible for a worker's compensation benefit.
When an injury involves medical costs and lost income, the injured employee sometimes may receive a lump sum payment in worker's compensation benefits. The lump sum benefit payments eligible to be received could vary greatly with the nature and extent of the injuries and other factors. A Phoenix personal injury attorney sometimes helps an injured employee in these situations. They include:
· Permanent partial injury disability
· Permanent total injury disability
In a permanent partial disability, the employee is able after recuperation, to be able to perform some types of work. However, the employee is usually not expected to be able to fully regain ability to earn money. This type of disability is usually divided into two groups which are schedule and nonschedule injuries.
With a permanent total disability, the injured employee is unable to work at all and because of the extent of his or her injuries, is not expected to be able to work again. People in this category sometimes engage a Phoenix personal injury attorney.
In the case of partial permanent disabilities, schedule injuries are injuries for which a lump sum payment has been prescribed by Arizona law. The injury or injuries are assigned a set value and former earnings amounts are irrelevant to the compensation.
Nonschedule injuries are which no set amount is specified.
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