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Understand Your Workers Compensation Rights
If you are injured in the course of your employment and have a compensable claim you are entitled to free medical care, free related prescriptions, and continuing wage replacement payments. You may be entitled to vocational retraining. If your injury is permanent you are entitled to an award (money) based on the percentage of permanency and other factors.
Generally, there is no attorney’s fee unless there is an award for a permanent injury, therefore you never take any money out of your pocket to pay a fee. All fees are payable from the proceeds of the case. The attorney's fee is set by Maryland Law.
When you have sustained a Workers' Compensation Injury in Maryland and make a claim you are entitled to three types of recovery:
- The payment of temporary total disability at the rate of two-thirds (2/3) of your average weekly wage for the whole time you are unable to work. However, if you are out 14 days or less due to this injury, the insurance company does not have to pay you for your first three days missed.
- The Workers' Compensation Insurance carrier for your employer must pay all of your medical bills incurred as a result of this injury at a rate set forth by the Maryland legislature. If the medical bills exceed the legislative schedule of medical payment, you are not liable for the outstanding bill for treatment by Maryland doctors.
- After you have been medically discharged by your treating doctor, having reached a point of maximum medical improvement, if you still have medical problems resulting from this injury, then you may have a permanent injury. If you have a permanent injury, you are entitled to an award (money) that will be determined depending on the amount or percentage of your permanent injury and other factors.
A Workers' Compensation case is usually brought to a conclusion in the form of a Stipulation which entitles you to continue to have full medical benefits for the injured area of your body for the rest of your life. It also entitles you to reopen your case for a worsening of your condition to get a greater award (money) within five years of the last payment of the original award. If a stipulation can not be worked out the case will go to a Hearing in front of a Workers’ Compensation Commissioner (a Judge). The Commissioner will decide the amount of permanent injury after the injured worker testifies and is cross-examined by the employer and insurers attorney. An injured worker will need an attorney for the Hearing as the rules of evidence must be followed.
Attorney Morrow has handled hundreds of Hearings throughout his career.
The other type of conclusion of a Workers' Compensation case is a Full and Final Settlement Agreement which, like an automobile accident case, means that you would normally receive more money than you would expect to get from a Stipulation or Hearing in exchange for giving up your future worsening of condition rights. Your future medical rights may be negotiated as well.
As noted above, the attorney’s fee is set by Maryland Law, it is a percentage of your permanent injury Award. If there is no Award there are no fees or expenses.
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