Injuries, accidents and work claims
What an injury claim pays depends on a few numbers: your wage, a rating, a policy limit, a percentage. These guides show where each number comes from and run the math for you.
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Workers' comp
- Workers' comp settlement calculatorCalculator
Weekly benefit, scheduled awards by body part and a payout chart.
- Hand injury at work compensationCalculator
Loss-of-use ratings, scheduled weeks and your settlement.
- Ankle injury at work compensationCalculator
Foot or leg schedule, loss-of-use ratings and your offer.
- MMI in workers' compCalculator
What changes when the doctor says you've reached MMI.
- Assault at work compensationCalculator
When workers' comp covers an attack, and what else can pay.
Car accidents
- Hit from behindCalculator
Why the rear driver is usually at fault, and when they aren't.
- Sideswiped carCalculator
Lane changes, hit-and-runs and which coverage pays.
- Single-vehicle accident
Which coverage pays, and when someone else is responsible.
- Back pain after a car accident
Coverage for treatment and the records an insurer will ask for.
- Policy limits search
How to learn the at-fault driver's limits, and why it matters.
- Car accident loanCalculator
What you'd owe at payoff, month by month, and the alternatives.
Wrongful death
- Who gets wrongful death moneyCalculator
Which relatives share, how it's divided, and what comes out first.
On the job
- Wrongful termination examples
Firings that can break federal law, and the deadlines to act.
The rules behind these guides
- State workers' compensation laws
- the benefit rate, the weekly maximum and the weeks paid for each body part, for example New York Workers' Compensation Law § 15
- Your auto policy and state insurance law
- liability limits, medical payments and uninsured motorist coverage after a crash
- Statutes of limitations
- the deadline to file a claim or a lawsuit, which differs by state and by type of claim
Other topics
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