Previous posts here have discussed the different types of disability benefits that victims of workplace accidents in Minnesota can receive through the state's Workers' Compensation program. To this point, this blog has talked about temporary total disability payments and permanent partial disability payments. The first type of benefit pays a worker who, for a period of time, cannot return to work at all. The second type of benefit pays a worker who may be able to go back to work eventually, but who will have some sort of permanent handicap on account of the injury.
Unfortunately, many residents of the Twin Cities area probably know of at least one person who suffered a workplace injury so extensive that they could not return to work at all. In these sorts of cases, an injured worker can receive permanent total disability, or "PTD," payments. To qualify for these benefits, a doctor must certify that the worker will remain disabled even after undergoing a course of medical treatment.
