How Do I Keep Income Coming In During an Ohio Workers' Comp Claim?

My clients come from all walks of life. Some people are hurt because they are doing heavy labor, construction type of work. Some people are white collar sales people that are in an automobile accident while they're on the job. There are many types of injuries that people can have in Ohio that should be covered under the system. Guide you through the process. Make sure you always have money coming in of some sort, whether it be temporary total or living maintenance. If you're going through vocational rehabilitation, that you understand the wage loss aspects — that if you're looking for work, you're still entitled to get paid while you're looking for work. If you have to go back to work in a different job, making less money, workers comp, by the way, will pay you two-thirds of the difference for up to 200 weeks. It's terrible. I've had to advise people that, look, I know your doctor said you need three more weeks, but you're not going to have that job to go back to. Now, we have vocational rehabilitation. You get paid while getting retrained to do another job and all that, but most people like their jobs, or at least they're comfortable with their jobs. That would be like telling me I have to go be a divorce lawyer, or I have to go do wills and trusts. I'd be scared to death. I wouldn't like it. I like doing what I do with workers compensation and personal injury — but telling me I have to go do something else because I was outside of that 12 weeks, that's a horrible thing. There's this built-in incentive clearly not to help out the injured workers because it's business.