Workers Compensation Maine is designed to help a worker who becomes injured on the job. The help includes all medical care and treatment as prescribed and recommend by a doctor, payments for loss of income, and possible damage payments if you have permanent damage from the injury. Workers compensation laws are designed to keep employees safe on the job and ensure employeers pay when their safety has been compromised. Immediately after getting hurt at work, you must notify your employer. They will then tell you how to proceed with a claim and give you paperwork to fill out. If you have your own personal doctor, you can see your doctor and if not, your employer will have an occupational doctor who they can send you too. They will evaluate you and your injury and lay out a recovery plan. You will continue with the plan until you have recovered, or reached the point where you can no longer recover any further from the injury.