COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES.Byline: The Register-Guard Veterans may receive larger disability payments for permanent injuries. Some receive a one-time one-time adj. 1. or one·time a. Occurring or undertaken only once: a one-time winner in 1995. b. payment for traumatic traumatic (trômat´ik), adj of, pertaining to, or caused by an injury. traumatic occlusion, n See occlusion, traumatic. traumatic shock, n See shock, traumatic. losses, to a maximum of $100,000. Some examples: $100,000: Total loss of sight in both eyes or hearing in both ears; loss of both hands, both feet or one of each; loss of both thumbs $75,000: Loss of speech and hearing in one ear; loss of one hand or foot and hearing in one ear $50,000: Permanent loss of speech; loss of sight in one eye or hearing in one ear; loss of thumb and index finger on same hand $25,000: 15 days in a coma coma, in medicine coma, in medicine, deep state of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be aroused even by painful stimuli. The patient cannot speak and does not respond to command. ; loss of hearing in one ear; 30 days of inability to carry out activities of daily living - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. |
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