New Jersey Permanent Disability Compensation Attorneys
Permanent Disability Compensation
A worker, who has devoted many years to an entire career only to suffer a debilitating injury as a result of a dangerous working environment, deserves to at least be compensated in order to receive some degree of normalcy in return. Although many injuries sustained while on the job are not life-threatening and can be easily treated, a handful of workplace injuries are much more demanding and may require years of rehabilitation, if not causing an employee to cope with permanent disabilities for the remainder of his or her life. Fortunately, employees who suffer permanent disabilities due to a work accident may qualify to obtain permanent disability compensation.
The Rules of the New Jersey Division of Workers’ Compensation are very intricate and classify different disabilities in various ways. Most commonly, permanent disability will be associated with any condition that interferes with your heart, hearing, spine, limbs, brain, or vision. However, the workers’ compensation system determines the difference between partial and total permanent disability. Partial permanent disability occurs when an employee can still perform some job duties, but may require vocational rehabilitation or a job change in order to remain employed. Total permanent disability means that you are entirely incapable of returning to any job under any conditions, and is usually seen under the circumstances of paralysis, amputations, brain injury, and many other situations.
Permanent disability is often responsible for causing a distressing psychological change for a worker who used to clock-in five days out of every week. Alongside the stress of financial loss, a worker who has recently sustained a permanent disability will need extensive medical support and rehabilitation to cope with the realities of their life-long condition. In a permanently injured worker’s efforts to come to grips with his or her new life, workers compensation is usually sought to assist in providing financial compensation to help pay for a variety of demanding costs associated with permanent disability.
To ensure that your rights as an injured worker in New Jersey are protected so that you obtain the full compensation that you deserve, you need a skilled New Jersey workers’ compensation lawyer with years of experience handling personal injury and workers compensation litigation. At Lependorf & Silverstein, our dedicated and knowledgeable attorneys are highly familiar with permanent disability workers’ compensation and other legal elements of work-related injuries.
Your recovery is too important not to contact an attorney who is more than willing to defend your rights and help you receive compensation for pain and suffering, loss of wages, medical bills, physical therapy, and much more. Contact the New Jersey workers comp law firm of Lependorf & Silverstein today for your free and confidential workers’ compensation consultation.