When workers suffer injuries on the job, or sustain illness or injury away from the job that result in absence from work, in some cases disability or workers' compensation benefits are available.

Workers' compensation programs compensate employees injured on the job. During the workers' compensation process, a doctor assigns an injured employee a disability rating. This rating represents a ...

High-deductible health plans have caused workers' comp claims to spike, but accident and disability coverage can help even things out. nearly one in five employers with an HDHP report an increase in ...

Our lives are unpredictable and uncertain. One such uncertainty that hovers is the risk of workplace injury, which can be highly devastating in some cases. Many times, a workplace injury or accident ...

Many working people have more than one job, so it’s not uncommon for them to have several sources of income. Owning multiple small businesses, seasonal jobs and the gig economy (a sequence of ...

Workers' compensation and social security disability can have different effects depending on your situation. If you have a workers' compensation wage award in Virginia and are approved for social ...

Will my disability benefits be reduced if I get workers’ compensation or other public disability benefits? If you get either workers’ compensation or public disability benefit payments, we may reduce ...

The Commonwealth Court reversed an order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board that found claimant's disability began on the actual date of his injury. The Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled in ...

Under the Workers' Compensation Act you have the right to compensation for periods of time that you cannot work due to your work related injury. This is called temporary total disability ("TTD"). This ...

When workers suffer injuries on the job, or sustain illness or injury away from the job that result in absence from work, in some cases disability or workers' compensation benefits are available.

Depending on your situation, workers' comp can have different effects on one's social security disability. Assuming you have a workers compensation wage award in Virginia, and approval for social ...