Question about workers compensation settlements?

[sherborne16]

I'm asking this for my mother. She already has a lawyer but I am just wondering myself.

She has had back and neck surgery and still works 60ish hours at her factory job in NY. She is currently out on compensation. She had to take comp/her work to court because they didn't want to pay her. Long story short: they agreed to pay her her full pay while out on comp. and took 100% liability for her current injury. She goes back in 2 months to discuss further benefits and a settlement. I am wondering what the settlement might be? She can never go back to work. She has stage 2 disc degeneration in her spine. It will take 30 months of rehab to keep it where it is currently at and to stop it from progressing to stage 3. (Where her vertebra completely fuse together) At her work, people who have had work injuries on their shoulders that resulted in surgery have received settlements of around $60,000. And that's with them going back to work afterwards. Does anyone know what she may stand to collect from a permanent spine injury if her job is accepting 100% liability?

Thank you

[gwynethpaltrow8]

There is no way for us to know = we don't know how she was injured, we don't know her salary, there was obviously prior damage.

But realize $60000 is almost nothing for her to live on forever. Your lawyer is currently working for free - the lawyer is going to take the fee you agreed to and office expenses off the top of the settlement = which usually leaves about 30-40% = $18K-$24K

[matyas]

They may agree to give five years wages to settle.