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After a work injury or occupational disease, people with an L&I claim or workers’ compensation claim might have medical conditions that impact their ability to return to work. We refer to workers incapable of working during their recovery as temporarily and totally disabled. These workers receive time-loss compensation benefits, which is a type of wage replacement. When […] The post Light Duty Work in L&I Claims and Workers’ Compensation Claims appeared first on Workers Compensation – Washington…
The Stay at Work (WA-SAW) program in Washington State is an incentive program for employers.  The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) offers this program to help employers save costs. Specifically, the program allows employers to apply for cost reimbursement after a worker or an employee suffers an injury at work. To get reimbursements, the […] The post L&I Claim Court Decision Prompts Changes to the Stay at Work Program in Washington State appeared first…
If the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) closes your L&I claim or workers’ compensation claim, then you might be able to reopen it. However, if your L&I claim closed, it’s important to note that L&I doesn’t automatically reopen claims. In fact, your case must meet certain criteria to reopen an L&I claim. Yet, many work injury […] The post L&I Claim Closed – How to Reopen a Workers’ Compensation Claim in Washington State? appeared first on…
The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) administers workers’ compensation benefits in Washington State. These include financial benefits such as time-loss compensation, loss of earning power, work injury pension, and more. Furthermore, benefits include medical treatment, evaluation, vocational services and retraining, and others. Also, self-insured employers administer their claims according to the requirements of the […] The post L&I Covid-19 Premium Deferral Program and the L&I Accident Fund appeared first on Workers Compensation – Washington…
A workplace can be dangerous. It can even be deadly. When disaster occurs, many workers respond heroically to help coworkers and others, and save lives.   Coworkers rushing to save fellow employees in a construction work accident I recently posted about the heroic efforts of several workers in a trench collapse at a wind farm […] The post Work Injury and Workplace Accident Heroes: Nominate Workers That Saved Lives appeared first on Workers Compensation – …
A catastrophic work injury or occupational disease can make work injury victims unemployable.  Here, unemployable means that the person is unable to “perform or obtain a gainful occupation with a reasonable degree of success and continuity”.  If medical treatment or vocational services cannot make the person employable, then the work injury claimant is permanently and […] The post L&I Pension – Permanent Total Disability appeared first on Workers Compensation – Washington.…
A catastrophic work injury or occupational disease can make work injury victims unemployable.  Here, unemployable means that the person is unable to “perform or obtain a gainful occupation with a reasonable degree of success and continuity”.  If medical treatment or vocational services cannot make the person employable, then the work injury claimant is permanently and […] The post L&I Pension – Permanent Total Disability appeared first on Workers Compensation – Washington.…
The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) takes fraud very seriously.  Under the Industrial Insurance Act, the letter of the law refers to fraud as “willful misrepresentation”.  Under the law (WAC 296-14-4121) it says: “[I]t is willful misrepresentation for a person to obtain payments or other benefits in an amount greater than that to which […] The post Fraud in L&I Claims and Workers’ Compensation Claims in Washington State appeared first on Workers Compensation – …
The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) takes fraud very seriously.  Under the Industrial Insurance Act, the letter of the law refers to fraud as “willful misrepresentation”.  Under the law (WAC 296-14-4121) it says: “[I]t is willful misrepresentation for a person to obtain payments or other benefits in an amount greater than that to which […] The post Fraud in L&I Claims and Workers’ Compensation Claims in Washington State appeared first on Workers Compensation – …
The Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) recently announced the 2020-2021 benefits schedule.  Every year, around July, L&I determines if a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) applies to workers’ compensation benefits. Sometimes COLAs are not applied.  However, this year, there are adjustments to monetary benefits.   Cost of living adjustment under an L&I claim In short, […] The post L&I Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) and the Washington State Accident Fund appeared first on Workers Compensation …