Generally speaking, you can collect Alabama workers’ comp for up to 300 weeks after a workplace accident for a permanent or temporary disability or until maximum medical improvement is reached, whichever comes first.
Maximum medical improvement is when a physician decides that you have reached a point where additional recovery is unlikely, and it is doubtful you will improve past this point. Maximum medical recovery does not indicate that an injured victim has made a complete recovery.
Following your accident, you could be rated as being permanently disabled, which means you won’t be able to work ever again. If this is the case, you could be entitled to collect weekly workers’ comp payments for two-thirds of your salary for the rest of your life. If someone dies due to a workplace accident, their beneficiaries may be entitled to collect payments for as long as 500 weeks and funeral and burial expenses.