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What is a CA-1 form?

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The CA-1 form is a notice of injury form that’s filed by the employee who is injured at one time or during the course of one shift. So, if you fall and break an arm, or if you did something over the course of a day that causes injury, you would file a Form CA-1 with your employer.

What is a CA-2 form?

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A CA-2 Form is a notice of injury form when the employee suffers an injury over the course of more than one shift. It could be over the course of a week, a month or years. But it’s also called an Occupational Disease Form. So if you are injured over a period of time, you would file the form CA-2 with your employer.

What is a CA-2a form?

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A CA-2a form is a claim for recurrence. If for instance an employee has an injured back and they go out of work for awhile and they’re returned back to work, and then they have a worsening of that back injury condition, they would claim a recurrence. To do that they would file a form CA-2a.

What is a CA-7 form?

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A CA-7 form is a request for compensation, so if you’re requesting payment for wage loss, or payment of a schedule award, you must file a form CA-7 with that request for payment.

What is a schedule award?

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A schedule award is a payment for the permanent impairment that the injured worker has sustained. It’s based upon the evaluation performed utilizing a particular book or manual, the sixth edition of the AMA guides. For instance, if you have a knee injury and then the doctor says you’re about as good as you’re going to get that doctor can then go ahead and determine the impairment that you’ve sustained and then that can be submitted to the Department of Labor for a determination of a schedule award.

Does a pre-existing injury preclude me from receiving a schedule award?

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You can receive a schedule award if a preexisting injury was made worse by your on-the-job activity. So for instance, if you already had a damage wrist from years passed, but then you re-injure that wrist on the job and it was made worse, then you would be entitled to an evaluation for impairment, and a determination for payment of a schedule award.

What is a supplemental schedule award?

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A supplemental schedule award is a second payment for impairment where you’ve already been paid on that body part once. For instance, if you had a knee injury, and for instance, you had a meniscal tear and you get paid five percent for that meniscal tear, and then later on that knee gets worse and now you have a knee replacement, you could request supplemental schedule award for the higher impairment that that knee now has.

Does the location of my attorney matter for a Federal Workers’ Compensation claim?

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The location of your attorney doesn’t really matter at all and that’s because the entire claim is done electronically and by telephone. In most instances the paperwork is going to be done electronically and uploaded to the Department of Labor and the Office of Workers Comp programs, and if there’s any hearings they’re always done telephonically. So, no, it doesn’t matter where your attorney is actually physically located in relation to you.

What is continuation of pay (COP)?

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Continuation of pay or commonly known as COP is a payment by the employer for the first 45 days that the employee is out of work. If you’re injured you would file your claim or your notice of injury and if your doctor takes you out of work for those first 45 days your employer would be the one to make the payment. After that it would be up to the office of worker’s comp programs to pay for the 46th day onward.

How do I file an OWCP claim?

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Once you’re injured on the job, you must provide notice to the employer, and then you must also complete paperwork that goes to the OWCP, the Office of Workers Compensation Programs, who will then review the documentation, and then make a decision on whether or not they accept or decline your claim. They may simply say, “Well, we won’t accept it yet. We need more medical or factual information on the claim.”