Workers' Compensation Statutes

Worker compensation is a form of insurance that almost all employers are required to carry to compensate their workers for job related injuries. Any injury or illness that is employment related is generally within the meaning of a workers' compensation injury. There are three important differences between workers' compensation statutes and general personal injury claims. First, under workers' compensation statutes, the employee does not have to prove that his injury was caused by his employer's negligence. Instead, all the employee needs to show is that the injury was work related. Second, the employee's sole recourse against the employer for work related injuries is a worker's compensation claim. The worker is not permitted to bring a suit against an employer or co-worker for work related injuries. Third, the compensation an employee is entitled to is dramatically less than the compensation available in a general personal injury claim. Five types of benefits potentially available for an employees work related injures:

• medical bills
• temporary total disability
• permanent partial disability
• total disability
• death benefits

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