Injury Award | Jobsite Disability

$137,500 Long Time Municipal Employee

Our client, a long-time municipal employee, injured his knee on a jobsite, necessitating surgery and leaving him with a permanent injury that prevented him from returning to his historical work in the field. This fairly high-paid supervisor was collecting maximum workers comp wage benefits and his medical bills were being paid. When it became apparent that he was not going to be able to return to his traditional job, we argued for vocational rehabilitation benefits to retrain our client for another high wage job that was more sedentary. After much wrangling and prior to a hearing on our vocational rehabilitation request, the insurance carrier was willing to settle this case in an acceptable amount where our client would develop his own rehabilitation plan.