Injuries that occur on the job are more common than many people realize. You can get hurt working in an office environment just as easily as you can getting hurt while working on a construction site. When you get hurt at work, you may be eligible to make a workers’ compensation claim. This can assist […]

Under Connecticut law, a worker can ask that a workers’ compensation commissioner refers him or her to the workers’ compensation vocational rehabilitation commission. That is set up to help train and prepare people to engage in a new occupation where their medical situation due to their injury prohibits them from continuing their old job. In […]

Retirement itself does not terminate workers’ compensation benefits. There are different types of workers’ compensation benefits. Some of them are lost wage benefits. Some of them are permanent disability payments. Some of them are medical payments. Retirement typically might impact on your weekly compensation benefits because those are designed to reimburse you if  lose wages […]

The legislator in Connecticut has established benefits schedules for lost wages and there is a maximum, which depends on your circumstances. It’s a formula and we can guide you through the process but right now, for the typical wage earner, we can pretty quickly tell you what you’re entitled to in terms of benefits. In […]

People often ask “How much am I going to get? What am I entitled to?” and the answer is a little complicated but not something that we can’t figure out for you. Essentially, Connecticut law says that your employer needs to take your average wage, or average weekly wage, over the 52-week period prior to […]