Legal Question in Workers Comp in Alabama

Permanent Partial disability

Do you still receive a settlement for PPD if you return to work making the same wage as before injury.I am had surgery for a ruptured lumbar disc.The doctor said I will have some permanent disability. I have not talked to attorney because WC has paid everything and not givin any trouble and employer has been good to me. I live in Alabama. Thanks


Asked on 9/22/04, 11:53 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jon Lewis Lewis, Feldman, & Lehane, LLC

Re: Permanent Partial disability

If you return to work making the same you were making, you are not entitled to any vocational disability, only permanent impairment. Therefore, if the doctor gives you a permanent impairment of 10% to the body as a whole, you are entitled to 2/3 of your average weekly wage multiplied by 10%. If that figure is greater than $220, $220 is the maximum. If it's less than $220, you take the figure times 300 weeks, i.e.: $20 (after the 10%) would entitle you to $6,000.00 PPD.

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Answered on 9/22/04, 11:57 am


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