Filing for Lost Wages Under Pennsylvania Work Comp

You get hurt doing your job. Now, you're injured and you can't work. You don't work, you don't get a paycheck. You need help collecting your lost wages.

Our lawyers can help. If you have been on medical leave under a doctor's orders for more than seven days, you may be eligible to receive Pennsylvania work comp payments for your lost wages.

Here's an interesting twist to lost wages under Pennsylvania law – even though a doctor told you not to go to work, in order for you to receive lost wages payment for those first seven days you missed, you must be off work and under a doctor's care for at least fourteen work days.

Our Pennsylvania work comp lawyers know all of the details of filing a claims petition for lost wages and can guide you through this sometimes confusing process.

"The Pennsylvania work comp system is stacked against the individual worker. Make sure you have someone on your side who knows the system." Attorney Dennis Liotta

What type of lost wages compensation can you receive?

The amount of your lost wages payment depends upon your level of disability.

Total Disability

Pennsylvania work comp allows you to collect two-thirds of your pre-injury gross weekly wages. However, the maximum work comp payment allowed is set each year. In 2009, that maximum has been set at up to $836 weekly.

Partial Disability

You may receive partial disability if you return to a light duty assignment that pays less than your pre-injury position. Pennsylvania work comp will pay two-thirds of the difference in salary up to a maximum of 500 weeks, or 9.5 years.

Additional information about Pennsylvania work comp payments for lost wages

• Lost wages payments can be reduced if you have other sources of income such as social security benefits, a pension, severance pay, unemployment compensation, or other payments.
• You will never receive a "cost of living" increase under Pennsylvania's current work comp system. You will collect the same payment – with no increase – for as long as your payments continue. This is one reason why some people chose a lump sum settlement.

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