WORKERS' COMPENSATION

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire tragically took the lives of 146 workers, most of them young women, in lower Manhattan. This devastating event led to the creation of critical worker protection laws, including New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law, fire safety codes, and wage and hour regulations—helping protect workers' rights and safety for generations.

Scholarships for Families of Injured Workers
Each year, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial Scholarship Fund continues this legacy by providing financial assistance to the children of workers who have been permanently disabled or lost their lives due to a workplace injury. These scholarships offer $6,000 per year in financial support for college-bound students whose families have been impacted by work-related accidents.


If your workers’ compensation case qualifies and your child is preparing to attend or currently enrolled in college, we encourage you to apply. You can learn more about the Triangle Fire and the scholarship at www.trianglememorial.org.

How to Apply
The Triangle Scholarship is a meaningful way to honor the legacy of workers who have suffered due to unsafe working conditions while helping their children pursue higher education. If you or someone you know may be eligible, the application can be found at https://trianglememorial.org/scholarship/  
Our Firm’s Commitment to This Cause
At Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, we take great pride in supporting this important initiative. In honor and memory of our late partner, Lewis L. Heller, we have proudly contributed a scholarship to help students achieve their educational goals despite the hardships their families have endured.

Thank you for allowing us to serve you, and for joining us in honoring this legacy of worker protection and education. If you or a loved one has been injured in a workplace accident, call 800-692-3717 to schedule a free consultation to see how we can help.

 The workers' compensation system is based on a trade-off between employers and employees. Employees are entitled to receive prompt, effective medical treatment for on-the-job injuries or illnesses no matter who is at fault and, in return, are prevented from suing employers over those injuries. 

 In California, workers' compensation provides benefits for work-related injuries or illnesses, including medical care, temporary disability payments (around 2/3 of pre-tax wages), permanent disability benefits, supplemental job displacement benefits, and death benefits.  

• Medical Care: Injured workers are entitled to all medical treatment reasonably required to cure or relieve the effects of a work-related injury or illness, including physician services, hospitalization, physical restoration, and more. 
• Temporary Disability Benefits: If you lose wages because your injury prevents you from doing your usual job while recovering, you may receive temporary disability benefits, which are typically two-thirds of your pre-tax gross wage. 
• Permanent Disability Benefits: If you don't recover completely from a work-related injury, you may be eligible for permanent disability benefits. 
• Supplemental Job Displacement Benefits (SJDB): If you have a permanent disability and don't return to work for your employer, you may be eligible for SJDB, which provides vouchers to help pay for retraining or skill enhancement. 
• Death Benefits: If an employee dies from a work-related injury or illness, workers' compensation provides benefits to qualifying dependents, including burial expenses. 
• Return-to-Work Supplement: In some cases, workers' compensation may also provide a return-to-work supplement to help injured workers find suitable employment. 

There are four types of workers' compensation benefits:

• Income benefits replace some of the money you lost because of your work-related injury or illness. (except for impairment income benefits). Types of income benefits include:
  • temporary income benefits (TIBs);
  • impairment income benefits (IIBs);
  • supplemental income benefits (SIBs); and
  • lifetime income benefits (LIBs).

• Medical benefits pay for reasonable and necessary medical care to treat your work-related injury or illness.
• Burial benefits pay for some of an employee's funeral expenses to the person who paid those expenses.
• Death benefits help families replace some of the money lost when an employee dies because of a work-related injury or illness. Spouses of first responders can get death benefits for life even if they remarry (for marriages on or after September 1, 2017).

If you have questions about benefits, call 800-252-7031, option 1.

Benefits are authorized by Texas Labor Code (TLC) Sections 480.081-408.187