Legal Question in Workers Comp in New York

Re: acdf multilevel surgery

You have not given me enough information to give you a definitive answer but here goes:

If you injured your hands or ankle then you can get a permanency evaluation called a schedule loss of use 6 months post surgery. If an arm or leg 1 year post surgery

For the neck or back no schedule loss of use.

However, if you have a neck or back injury perhaps you cannot work again and would be a permanent or total disability called a ppd or ptd. This is after you reach maximum medical improcement usually a year or two after the surgery. With this award you get payments for a finite number of years and possibly for the rest of your life.

The most amount of money can be had by a section 32. Here you trade future payments and medical benefits for a lump sum settlement.this takes years to occur.

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