Wage Loss, Medical Care & Vocational Rehabilitation

Michigan Workers' Comp Benefits Lawyers

Injured workers in Michigan receive compensation for the costs of lost wages, medical care, and vocational rehabilitation through the State of Michigan's workers' compensation law.

Lawyers Working for Workers' Rights Call 1.800.793.9963

If you need to make a claim for workers' compensation benefits or if your benefits have been stopped, delayed, or denied, please contact an attorney at Adler Stilman, PLLC in Farmington Hills, Michigan, today for a free initial consultation and case evaluation.

We will analyze your case, give you our best legal advice, and describe all the benefits you are eligible to receive, including:

Medical Care—Employees are entitled to receive reasonable medical, surgical, hospital services, medicines, and nursing care as long as there is a need related to the occupational injury or illness. The employer is also required to supply to the injured employee dental services, crutches, artificial limbs, eyes, teeth, eyeglasses, hearing apparatus, and other appliances necessary to cure, so far as reasonably possible, and relieve the employee of the effects of the injury.

Employees are also entitled to receive compensation for transportation to and from medical care services and the pharmacy. For the first 10 days after the injury claim, the employer chooses the doctor the employee may see. After that, the employee can consult the medical professional of his or her choice as long as the employer is notified.

Wage Loss—Wage loss benefits are set at 80 percent of the after tax value of your average weekly wage. These benefits are capped at 90 percent of Michigan's average weekly wage.

Workers' compensation benefits also include death benefits—and total and permanent disability payments.

Vocational Rehabilitation—For some injured workers, vocational rehabilitation means making adjustments to their work stations so that they can return to their old job. For others, vocational rehabilitation means a rehabilitation counselor will work with you and your employer to find a way for you to return to work for your old employer. A vocational rehabilitation agency may also work to help you find reasonable employment with another employer. If it is not reasonably possible to return to past employment, then the employee is entitled to receive up to two years of retraining, education, or a combination of both.

To learn more, please contact a workers' comp attorney at Adler Stilman, today. The initial consultation is free of charge and you will pay no attorney fees unless we win your case.

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