Exam 1: Introduction to Workers Compensation

Workers' compensation statutes are a balancing act: they both confer rights and remove others.

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the workers' compensation system for both employers and employees.

What is the function of a Workers' Compensation Board?

Before the creation of workers' compensation statutes, employees had far better options against employers than they have today.

Most workers' compensation statutes were created in the mid-1800s in a response to agricultural reforms.

What was the state of law for injured employees prior to the creation of workers' compensation statutes?

Which of the following are benefits not normally provided under workers' compensation?

The governmental unit responsible for administering the workers'compensation system: _____________-.

A system created in the early twentieth century to provide minimal medical coverage and benefits for injured workers:________________-- .