ABSTRACT
In this chapter, cases pertaining to workers’ compensation are presented. Workers’ compensation (also known as workers’ comp or workman’s comp in the United States or compo in Australia) provides compensation for workers injured on the job. is provides monetary compensation for replacement of wages and medical beneˆts of the employees. e employee agrees to relinquish further claims in a lawsuit against the employer for claims of negligence or tort. Workers’ compensation laws dier from state to state and from country to country. In general, workers’ compensation beneˆts provide a ˆxed monthly monetary income and health insurance. In the United States, workers’ compensation law was ˆrst passed in Maryland in 1902. Now, instead of using the term workman’s compensation, the gender-neutral term workers’ compensation is used. In the United States, most employees who are injured on the job have an absolute right to medical care and monetary beneˆts. Such payments depend on the employee’s temporary or permanent disability. e employer buys insurance from private insurance companies to pay for the employee’s disability. Workers’ compensation is administered on a state-by-state basis. e federal government pays its own workers’ compensation beneˆts to its employees through regular appropriations. Workers’ compensation laws not only cover injuries sustained by the employee on the job but also include work-related diseases. Usually a review board calculates the nature of the injury and the amount of compensation (1-4).
