Permanent Total Disability Benefits

Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Attorney

If a worker reaches maximum medical improvement but has not fully recovered from the injuries, the worker may receive permanent total disability benefits if they meet the following criteria:

• They cannot work at all, permanently, or
• They can work a sedentary job but there is no sedentary work available in a fifty mile radius from their home. If, as a result of an on-the-job injury, a worker’s injuries are so severe as to prevent the worker from returning to any employment, the worker is entitled to permanent total disability benefits. This is referred to as “PTD.” PTD benefits are 66 2/3 of the injured worker’s average weekly wage subject to the same maximum rate as temporary total disability benefits.  In order to receive PTD benefits, the injured worker cannot be capable of returning to even sedentary employment, even if it’s part-time, or for much lower wages than the worker received before the injury. Whether or not a worker is entitled to these benefits is often based on the worker’s restrictions, job experience, training, and available jobs within 50 miles of the injured worker’s home. 

  Insurance companies rarely pay PTD benefits without an order from a judge finding that the worker is permanently totally disabled. If you believe you are permanently totally disabled, you should contact the experienced workers’ compensation lawyer at the Law Office of Joan Dymond Horenstein for advice.Call the Law Office of Joan Dymond Horenstein today at

• 954-689-0708 for a free case evaluation from a workers’ compensation attorney. You may 

• e-mail us the contact form and a representative from the office will be in touch with you shortly. We look forward to hearing from you and helping with your workers compensation case!
  

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