Workers who have a loss of earning capacity due to work injury or occupational disease of 20 % or more receive a pension equal to 66.7 % of their previous year's earnings, up to the specified maximum.
12.
Among these non-fatal cases, 10, 722 were minor injury cases with sick leave not exceeding three days . The division also provides administrative support to the Employees'Compensation Assessment Board which assess the percentage of permanent loss of earning capacity suffered by injured employees.
13.
Ten of the fifty days in dry dock were allocated to the repair of the collision damage and the question for the House of Lords was whether the owners of the " Carslogie " were liable for that ten-day loss of earning capacity.
14.
Generally speaking, a worker covered by the LHWCA is entitled to temporary compensation benefits of 2 / 3 his average weekly wage while undergoing medical treatment, and then either to a scheduled award for injury to body parts enumerated in or 2 / 3 of the workers'loss of earning capacity.
15.
Only one suit locally yielded a multimillion-dollar award : $ 10 million for medical care, $ 140, 000 in loss of earning capacity and $ 3 million in punitive damages in the case of a 46-year-old man who suffered brain damage when he received the wrong medicine at an emergency room.
