| Immunity From Third Party Actions |
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| When a worker is injured during the course of his employment, he may sometimes seek a common law recovery from the third party whose action or inaction caused the injury. Depending upon the jurisdiction, immunity from such a third party action may be extended to the employer or co-employees. More... |
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| Degrees of Disability and Corresponding Benefits |
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| Temporary Disability More... |
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| Supplemental Security Income and Homeless Individuals |
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| The "homeless" status of an individual does not affect his eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Homeless individuals have the same right to apply for SSI benefits as anyone else. To obtain his benefits, a homeless individual may pick up his payments at a local Social Security office, have the payments mailed to a third party, have the funds automatically deposited into a personal bank account, or have the payments sent to a representative payee who will act in the individual's best interests. More... |
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| Necessity of Payment for "Employee" Designation |
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| To qualify for workers' compensation benefits, an individual must be an "employee." An important consideration in the determination of "employee" status is whether or not the individual receives payment for his labor. Workers' compensation is meant to provide the injured employee with a portion of his lost wages. If there is no payment for the worker's labor, he is not an employee for hire and has no "lost wages" that workers' compensation benefits can help replace. More... |
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| Traveling Employees |
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| Generally, if an employee is required to travel as a part of his employment, he is covered by workers' compensation for the duration of the trip. There is a distinct exception to this rule when the employee markedly departs from the business trip to attend to a personal matter. In those jurisdictions following the majority rule for compensability above, an employee will usually be covered for an injury resulting from, for example, sleeping in a hotel or eating in a restaurant. More... |
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