The attorneys with Althauser Rayan Abbarno want injured workers to know about a new law impacting time-loss benefits.
Workers who are injured or disabled in the course of employment are entitled to certain benefits through the workers’ compensation program, which is administered by the Department of Labor and Industries. Benefits may include medical costs, temporary wage replacement, vocational rehabilitation benefits, and permanent disabilities benefits.
A worker may be entitled to a partial replacement of wages, also referred to as time-loss compensation, if the worker is temporarily unable to work as a result of an occupational injury or disease. In order to qualify for time-loss compensation, a health care provider must certify that the worker is unable to work due to a work-related injury or illness, also referred to as a temporary total disability.
Time-loss compensation is paid to a worker only if the worker is unable to work for more than three days following the date of the injury. Further, the worker does not receive time-loss compensation for those first three days.
Previous law provided for time-loss benefits only after being unable to work for more than 14-days.
Pursuant to the NEW law, the number of days that a temporary total disability must continue to receive workers’ compensation time-loss benefits for the first three days following the injury is reduced to seven days.
To learn more about your workers’ compensation claim and for a FREE consultation, contact the attorneys with Althauser Rayan Abbarno at (360) 736-1301.
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