Savannah Permanent Partial Disability Benefits
Thousands of Americans are hurt on the job each year. Sadly, some of these individuals never completely recover from their injury or illness due to a permanent partial disability.
What is Permanent Partial Disability?
A permanent partial disability results when a work-related injury improves only to a certain extent and a particular body part(s) has not and will never fully recover. For example, a worker who has his finger severed during an assembly-line accident will likely never regain full mobility and function in his fingers and hand. Once all reconstructive surgeries have been performed and the authorized treating physician believes that recovery has reached its maximum improvement, he/she will assign a permanent partial disability rating to the hand.
Permanent Partial Disability Benefits: Eligibility and Amount
In order to gauge the extent of your disability, you must first be examined by an authorized treating physician, or ATP. Once your doctor has determined that your condition has improved as much as possible, you will be given an impairment rating. This rating will be used to calculate the amount of permanent partial disability benefits you will be eligible to receive. These benefits are computed by multiplying the percentage of your impairment rating given by your authorized doctor by the number of weeks allowed under the law for the type of injury that you have.
It is important to understand that no two workers’ compensation disability cases are the same; diagnoses and benefit amounts are awarded on an individual basis. Because this is a complicated and lengthy process, you should have an experienced workers’ compensation attorney on your side every step of the way.
