lost wages
Income from injury
Lost wages are income a person would have earned but didn't, typically because of injury, illness, or another party's wrongdoing.
The term appears most often in legal and insurance contexts, where lost wages form part of a damages claim: She sued for medical expenses and lost wages.
Past lost wages are already missed; future lost wages project what the person would have earned going forward.
- medical expensesFees for treatment
- workplace injuryHarm sustained while employed
- damagesCompensation for injury
- disability benefitsPayments for those unable to work
- pain and sufferingDistress from harm
workers' compensation · unpaid · layoff · severance pay · hardship · paycheck to paycheck · making ends meet · unemployment benefits · compensation claims · furlough · back to work · reduced hours · out of work · time off work · occupational injury · temporary disability · missed · industrial accidents
- lawsuit damagesmedical bills, property damage, business losses, loss of earnings, funeral expenses
- workplace liabilityworkplace injury, workplace accidents, workplace injuries, employer duties, liability insurance
- insuranceinsurance, coverage, auto insurance, life insurance, home insurance
- injury claimspersonal injury, injury claim, injury settlement, insurance claim, bodily harm
- personal injurypersonal injury, tort, injury claim, bodily harm, harm
- damagescompensatory, punitive, punitive damages, nominal, actual