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Insurance Company and Paying Wage Loss

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Weekly benefits are payable and they’re called temporary total disability, which is paid to an injured worker when they are completely out of work for a period of time recovering from an injury. Benefits are paid at two-thirds of what the wage was on the date of injury. Sometimes that’s easy to figure out because there is a fixed weekly wage that that injured work earns. Sometimes there are regular wages that that injured worker earns and the law provides for a review for the 26 weeks immediately preceding the injury. So sometimes, it’s just a straight two-thirds of what you’re making on that date and sometimes you have to go back and do an average of 26 weeks and calculate what two-thirds of that is. And we’re pretty good at arithmetic here, so we’re happy to do those calculations for people who aren’t as good at it.

Minneapolis workers’ compensation attorney Mark Olive describes how an employee can make sure that the insurance company is correctly paying wage loss.

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