Individuals employed or contracted by The Sandi Group or it’s subsidiaries who perform work outside the continental U.S., Alaska or Hawaii who may become injured as a result of employment are covered under the DBA for injury, disability, or death.
Medical Care- Includes all medical, surgical, and hospital treatment and other medical supplies and services required by the employee, as well as the cost of travel and mileage incidental to such treatment.
Disability Compensation- Compensation is paid every two weeks during an employee’s total disability because of a work related injury. {Disability means inability to earn the same wages earned at the time of injury. Compensation is payable for disabilities that are permanent total, temporary total, permanent partial, or temporary partial.}
Permanent Total & Temporary Total Disability: Compensation is two- thirds of the employee’s average weekly wage, subject to a maximum amount.
Permanent Partial Disability: Compensation is payable for the permanent loss or loss of use of certain parts or functions of the body, such as the loss of the arm, hand, fingers, leg, foot, toes, hearing or vision. Compensation is payable for a certain number of weeks for each type of disability as specified in the DBA. For example, total loss of use of a foot entitles the employee to 205 weeks of compensation.
Temporary Partial and Non-Scheduled Permanent Partial Disability: Compensation is tow thirds of the employee’s weekly wage loss or loss of wage-earning capacity.
Rehabilitation: Vocational rehabilitation may include evaluation, testing, consulting, selective placement, and retraining, if the employee is injured and can not return to the former job.
Death Benefits:
Death Benefits are paid to a widow or other eligible survivors if the injury causes the employee’s death. Reasonable funeral expenses are paid up to a maximum of $3,000.00
The widow receives 50% of the average weekly wage of the deceased employee for life or until remarriage. Additional compensation is payable at 16.2/3% of employee’s average weekly age for one or more children.
If children are the sole survivors, 50% of the employee’s average weekly wage is paid on behalf of the first child. When more then one child is entitle to benefits, a maximum of 66.2/3% applies, shared equally.
Other Eligible Survivors may be parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents and grand-children who were dependent on the employee.
Maximum and Minimum Payments: Compensation is payable under the DBA may not exceed 200% of the national average weekly wage, applicable at the time of injury, or the employee’s full average weekly wage, whichever is less.
Waiting Period: No compensation is allowed for the first three days of disability unless disability lasts longer then fourteen days.
What to Do if You Are Injured:
- Notify your supervisor and or local office. The local office will report the incident to the Risk Manager in our Corporate Headquarters.
- Obtain medical treatment as soon as possible.
- Assist the local office and or Risk Manager in the completion of all requested reports necessary to comply with the DBA reporting requirements.
- File your claim for benefits within one year after the date of injury or last payment of compensation, which ever is less. A claim for survivor benefits must be filed within one year after the date of death.
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