Workers Compensation benefits are due to an employee who has a "work-related" injury. These benefits can include temporary disability (permanent or partial), permanent total disability, permanent partial impairment rating, medical benefits, travel benefits (to attend medical appointments), reemployment benefits, and attorneys fees.
Workers Compensation is a very complicated area of law. There is a great deal of information on the Alaska Workers Compensation Board website, http://labor.state.ak.us/wc/.
You can get the names of attorneys who practice in the area of workers compensation by calling the Alaska Bar Association, Lawyer Referral Service, 272-7469 or Alaska Workers Compensation Board, 269-4980.
