How Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Benefits Are Calculated

Make sure you get the benefits you deserve when you are injured in the course of your employment in Pennsylvania. Count on the Ciccarelli Lawyers to fight for your rights.

If you are injured at work, two benefits are available to you under the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act -a weekly disability check and payment of medical bills. The amount of your weekly disability check is generally based on your earnings for the 12 months immediately preceding your injury. Your employer sends your pay stubs to its insurance company, and the insurance company (or other company hired by your employer) does the calculations. Surprisingly, they make many errors in the calculation of your gross weekly wage, known as the Average Weekly Wage (AWW).

Why is this important? Well, in short, the higher the calculation of your AWW, the higher your weekly disability checks will be. Even if the computation is only off by $10.00 per week, it could mean hundreds or thousands of dollars of lost disability income while you are off work.

The AWW figure must include all of the following amounts received during the 12 months before you were hurt including, wages, vacation page, tips, overtime, holiday pay, profit sharing, bonuses, incentive pay and sickness and accident benefits.

The AWW can be miscalculated if the insurance company misses or miscalculates any of the above facts or misses one or more of the following factors, if they occurred during the 12 months before your injury, including whether you were working for two or more employers at the same time; were working for your time of injury employer for less than 13 weeks before you were hurt, were laid off, were on sickness and accident benefits, or were injured and on workers comp from another injury.

Our promise: You need a Philadelphia workers compensation lawyer who understands the seriousness of your Pennsylvania workers compensation claim and will give it to you straight. You do not expect guarantees but you need a lawyer that you can trust to fight for you and your family to the fullest extent of the law. Our Philadelphia work injury team promises to work for you; be thorough and aggressive in setting out the best strategies for you and your loved ones.

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Our team of Philadelphia workers compensation lawyers is working on your case so that you have the benefit of several attorneys including Lee and using their combined efforts and experience to get you the justice you and your family need. We fight for injured workers in workers compensation courts in Berks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County and Philadelphia.

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We accept Philadelphia workers compensation claims on a contingency fee basis; which means that we do not require an advance fee, retainer or hourly rate but base our fee on a percentage of the monetary settlement we earn for you. We fight for injured workers in workers compensation courts in Berks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County and Philadelphia. Learn how we will work toward the result you need.

When you have been seriously injured in a work related accident, you need justice; and you need a top workers compensation lawyer with years of experience winning the tough cases: contact Lee Ciccarelli and our Philadelphia Workers Compensation team today. Call 24/7 at (877) 529-2422.