Workers’ Compensation is a No-Fault System

by Kara Dolan-West | Jul 28, 2014 | Workers' Compensation

Workers’ compensation eliminates negligence and fault as bases of loss allocation, and instead distributes the inevitable cost of injures among those parties best able to absorb them – employers as a whole. Questions of fault, blame, wrongdoing, wrongful acts or omissions, dereliction, or neglect are theoretically irrelevant under the compensation system. Whether the worker’s employment had the requisite causal connection with the injury constitutes the determinative inquiry.

Therefore, the economic burden resulting from work-related injuries and diseases shifts from the individual employer or, more often, the injured employee, to the industry as a whole. Employers share the responsibility as a group by contributing to a common fund in accordance with insurance principles, so that no single employer will bear the full cost of injures to its employees.

If you feel that you may have a workers’ compensation claim, please contact The Bainbridge Firm for more information about receiving the benefits you deserve.

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