What are Temporary Total Disability Benefits?

The Maryland Workers' Compensation Statute lays out four different types of disability benefits that can be paid to injured workers. One of the most commonly paid type of benefit is a temporary total disability.

Temporary Total Disability Benefits are paid if an employee’s injury results in the person being completely disabled for all work purposes. The employee may receive this type of disability benefit if it can be shown that the worker cannot work at all.  If this period of disability or “healing” is fourteen days or less, the benefit payments are not allowed for the first three days (except for payments for hospital, nursing, or other medical services).  If the “healing” period is longer than fourteen days, then the compensation is allowed to be paid immediately.

Workers' compensation laws can be quite confusing, therefore, it is very important to hire an attorney to represent your interests. If you are injured on the job within your employee duties, you have a workers' compensation claim and are entitled to compensation for your injuries. Call the attorneys at Portner & Shure today for a free consultation: (301) 854-9000.