Workers' Compensation Archives - Finderson Law Fort Wayne Workers Compensation Lawyers Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:34:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-finderson-icon-32x32.jpg Workers' Compensation Archives - Finderson Law 32 32 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (More Benefits in Indiana Workers’ Compensation)  https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/protect-workers-comp-benefits/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=4426 When faced with a work-related injury, you may have significant concerns regarding your worker’s compensation benefits and other employer-sponsored benefits. Navigating how your worker’s compensation benefits affect other employer-sponsored benefits, and vice versa, can be a tricky task. Gaining a clear understanding of how both types of benefits work will help alleviate fears while dealing […]

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]]> The Life of a Worker’s Compensation Claim in Indiana  https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/indiana-workers-comp-claim-timeline/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:50:18 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=4391 In Indiana, when an employee gets injured at work, the first step in the process is that the employee needs to timely report the injury. This should happen as soon as the injury occurs. Employers need to know an injury has occurred so that your worker’s compensation benefits can begin as promptly as possible. Once […]

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]]> TTD/TPD – Workers’ Compensation Benefits https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/ttd-tpd-workers-comp-benefits/ Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:43:40 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=4010 If you have been hurt at work, then the acronyms thrown around you can be a sudden onslaught of confusion and frustration. The acronyms are actually various benefits and specific situations that you are entitled to under the Indiana Worker’s Compensation Act. Two types of disability benefits under Indiana workers’ compensation are temporary total disability […]

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]]> What is Medical Payment Coverage (MPC) and Why Does It Matter? https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/medical-payment-coverage-why-it-matters/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:22:00 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=3937 Medical Payment Coverage, or MPC, is a part of your automobile insurance policy in Indiana. In Florida, there is also a form called PIP, or Personal Injury Protection. If you are in legal or insurance circles, you can also hear this commonly referred to as “MedPay.” MedPay is the portion that helps pay for medical […]

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]]> FCE – The Capability of You for Employment https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/functional-capacity-examinations/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=3856 Another chunk of alphabet soup; an FCE seems intentionally designed to confuse. But, it is simply another piece of lingo familiar to those in the industry.  FCE stands for Functional Capacity Examination. Actually, it is a comprehensive assessment conducted by healthcare professionals, normally occupational therapists or physical therapists, to evaluate an individual’s physical and functional […]

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]]> PPI: Another Alphabet Soup in Workers’ Compensation (Permanent Partial Impairment) https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/permanent-partial-impairment/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:07:39 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=3792 Law in general has quite the range of acronyms, but this one is often a stumper. If you have not been in workers’ compensation for a while, then PPI may be more than unfamiliar. PPI stands for permanent partial impairment, and in Indiana, it likely means a numerical percentage rating. A permanent partial impairment (PPI) […]

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]]> No Pain and Suffering—The Strange World of Workers’ Comp https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/workers-comp-pain-and-suffering/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 01:02:00 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=3757 The Grand Bargain; The Great Compromise; or, as some call it, the crappy deal: worker’s compensation as a system.  Workers’ compensation developed in modern American legislation shortly after the Industrial Revolution when American workers began to cry out for more protection. The origin of the push began with writings by impassioned authors in 1906: Upton […]

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]]> Independent Medical Exams: The Workers’ Compensation Beast https://www.findersonlaw.com/blog/workplace-accidents/independent-medical-exams/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:45:00 +0000 https://www.findersonlaw.com/?p=3667 If you have been injured at work, you may have heard the term “IME” being thrown around. Well, what is an IME? How does it affect you and your case? An independent medical examination (IME) in the context of workers’ compensation is a medical examination conducted by a neutral and independent health care provider, typically […]

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