Last night, I was half watching The Colbert Report when Stephen Colbert did a segment on a somewhat absurd infogaphic from The New York Times.
When workers in New York lose permanent use of a body part, the workers’ compensation system awards them money according to a schedule, set by the state, that assigns a lump sum equal to a certain number of weeks of wagers to each body part.
Colbert goes on to joke about how, in these tough economic times, it may just pay to accidentally lose the tip of your finger, toe, or maybe more depending on how much $$ you’re trying to make off it.
I don’t live in New York so I can’t take advantage… but 16 weeks compensation paid in a lump sum for losing your pinky toe? I mean really, what has my pinky toe done for me lately!?
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now that its done i wonder if its good enough to join the list !"
He did one small mistake, unfortunately everyone does mistakes."
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You can get Workman’s Compensation in any state, and they all follow a schedule close to this “Specific Loss” chart.