Work Accident Compensation Facts: How Your Compensation is Calculated

The first thing you should know when filing a work accident compensation claim is that the final amount of your compensation, should your claim be successful, will be determined not by your employer but by the courts.

You should not, then, ask your employer how much you should claim from him. This is not only outside the right procedure, this is also opening yourself to become victimized by your boss. For what would happen, we ask, if your employer, exploiting your credulity, would tell you all sorts of legal fiction and lead you to settle your claim for only a fraction of the amount you could have received had you let your personal injury lawyer represent you?

Consulting with your lawyer, thus, is an important step in claiming compensation, especially in determining how much you should claim. However, even if you are uninterested in filing a lawsuit against your boss, you can still avoid having to ask him how much you should claim by looking up the different claim amounts enumerated in the Judicial Studies Board Guidelines. Also known as the compensation calculator, these Guidelines are the official range of amounts that our courts base on regarding how much money the claimant should get once it has been proven that his injury was a result of an accident caused by other people.