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If an employee gets sick or injured at work, workers' comp benefits pay for medical expenses related to the resulting injury. Those expenses include doctors' visits, medical tests (e.g. x-rays, blood tests), rehabilitation, emergency room care, hospital stays, and in some cases, even transportation costs.

When the workers' compensation board awards lost wages benefits to a worker, they must first ascertain the average weekly wage (AWW) and the worker's degree of disability. Average weekly wage refers to the total earnings the worker earned from the employer for the year prior to the injury or illness.

Under workers' compensation law, an injury or illness is covered, without regard to fault, if it was sustained in the course and scope of employment, i.e., while furthering or carrying on the employer's business; this includes injuries sustained during work-related travel.

Weekly Wage means an Employee's hourly rate multiplied by the ordinary hours worked in a week.

To calculate the impairment award, the CE multiplies the percentage points of the impairment rating of the employee's covered illness or illnesses by $2,500.00. For example, if a physician assigns an impairment rating of 40% or 40 points, the CE multiplies 40 by $2,500.00, to equal a $100,000.00 impairment award.

Your public sector employer can pay you additional benefits while you are receiving workers' compensation wage loss payments. These benefits could include vacation pay, PTO, accumulated sick leave, comp time, or simply payments from the employer not charged against leave.

In the case of total permanent disability of an employee due to an accident in the workplace, the compensation that is offered under workmen compensation policy are: 50% of the monthly salary X relevant factor based on the age of the worker. 1,20,000 is the minimum amount payable in this situation.

Average Weekly Wage (AWW) — an employee's pre-injury earning capacity, based on earnings in the period directly preceding a work-related injury or illness. The formula for calculating AWW varies by state.

To calculate your regular weekly wage, you divide your annual salary by 52. If someone makes $52,000 a year, this would amount to $1,000 weekly. The maximum benefit would be $666.66 in this case as state law stipulates the maximum benefit is 2/3 of your pretax gross wage.

As stated in the Texas Labor Code, you have the right to choose your treating doctor in a workers' compensation claim. If, following your injury or illness, you were seen by the company doctor, then you only have 10 days to find a different doctor otherwise the company doctor becomes, by law, your treating doctor.