Compensation Medical Treatment Form

Instructions and help about Compensation Medical Treatment

today's video feature is lifetime medical treatment in a workers compensation case it would be given as part of an overall workers compensation award but it is a prize that you never want to receive if you get this it means that you have been very seriously injured and you're going to feel the effects for the rest of your life now there are a number of scenarios and i'll go over each of them the most common is where there is a prosthetic device put into your body during surgery it may be a titanium rod in your arm or leg or plates and screws or a wire cage around some part of your spine usually your lower back or neck under the law the workers cop insurance carrier is responsible for that prosthetic device for life however an intervening superseding accident will interrupt that liability and that's why we typically like to resolve those cases on a full release or clincher basis so that you are protected a burden hand sort of thing a second scenario is where you are rendered permanently