If an employee has been injured at work because of
a hazardous condition at the workplace, the hazard
should be removed as soon as possible before it
injures someone else. The employee injured at the
workplace has the right to file for
workers’ compensation benefits.
Due to worker’s comp, the employee injured
at work receives appropriate medical care and the
paying of medical bills. He/she can also receive the
lost wages benefit for on-the-job injury, and, if
necessary, retraining and rehabilitation, so as to
be able to return to the workforce. When workers are
killed on the job, members of the workers' families
are ordinarily eligible for benefits. If serious injury
has been caused to the employee because of a violation
of the state workplace safety law, the employee may
seek additional damages. The additional damages will
be more than the amount he/she is eligible to receive
from a worker’s comp claim.
Only those employees are eligible for worker’s
compensation benefits whose injury or illness has
“arisen out of and in the course of employment.”
It means that:
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The injury or illness
was caused during the work time. |
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The employee was in a place
where is he/she was supposed to be, or at least
reasonably was been expected to have been. |
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The employee was injured or
became ill In the line of duty, while doing his/her
job. |
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The incident occurred under
circumstances where there is a cause-and-effect
relationship between the job and the injury. |
