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Posted in Workers' Compensation on November 30, 2016
What does a Findings and Award for Unscheduled Permanent Partial Disability mean? Other than being a summary of your work injury, this is a very important document. Worker’s comp. may pay you if you have permanent lost wages due to your injury. This document is what the Industrial Commission has determined about your permanent lost wages. You do not have to agree.
Request a Hearing
You can request a hearing. It is very, very important to have an experienced worker’s compensation lawyer look at this on your behalf. It is probable that the insurance company hired an expert who submitted a recommendation to the Industrial Commission. Did you have an expert on your side? If you do nothing, this document become permanent and there is no way to try to fight it later. Call us as soon as you get this (or before!) and you can run it by an attorney who only practices workers comp. It’s certainly worth a phone call.
Ms. Crossman is a Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation law by the State Bar of Arizona and past Co-Chair of the State Bar Workers’ Compensation Section. She has served as a faculty member at the State Bar Seminar on Professionalism and as a Judge Pro Tempore in the Maricopa County Superior Court. She is a long-time member of the Arizona Association of Lawyers for Injured Workers and has spoken at Workers’ Compensation seminars sponsored by the organization and the Industrial Commission of Arizona.