The Superior Court addressed a rather convoluted fact pattern in determining whether an injured worker is entitled to a resumption of their temporary total disability benefits even though they have ...

Col Fullagar looks at the past 30 years and how the insurance definition of total disability as we know it now has evolved throughout the years. Act three, scene one. Hamlet enters: “TD or not TD?

A federal court in New York recently construed the meaning of a total disability definition where the insurance policy language includes residual disability coverage. The January 3, 2020 decision came ...

The first consideration in handling a total disability claim is whether the petitioner qualifies under workers' compensation law for permanent total disability benefits. It is quite common for a ...

The medical and vocational evidence in a recent case amounted to substantial evidence supporting that a worker was permanently and totally disabled due to his inability to benefit from vocational ...

Refusing valid modified work offers was unreasonable, which would usually justify denying the worker temporary total disability (TTD) benefits, a recent ruling said. However, this issue became moot ...

High Option 66 2/3% of Covered Monthly Salary *The percentage of salary is the most that can be received from all sources, including social security and other employer-sponsored disability benefits.

"Applying the statute here, the Commission may review the wages the Department of Corrections paid to Walker following her ankle injury, and 'may make an award ending, diminishing or increasing [this] ...

This story is part of a series on financial and economic literacy funded by Ecstra Foundation. Having income protection insurance means that if you get sick or injured and can’t work, you’ll still get ...