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  2. Workers' compensation - Wikipedia

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    Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of ...

  3. Workers' compensation (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The topic of workers' compensation fraud is highly controversial, with claimant supporters arguing that fraud by claimants is rare—as low as one-third of one percent, [63] others focusing on the widely reported National Insurance Crime Bureau statistic that workers' compensation fraud accounts for $7.2 billion in unnecessary costs, [64] and ...

  4. Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act - Wikipedia

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    Generally speaking, a worker covered by the LHWCA is entitled to temporary compensation benefits of two-thirds of his average weekly wage while undergoing medical treatment, and then either to a scheduled award for injury to body parts enumerated in or two-thirds of the workers' loss of wages, or wage earning capacity. [4]

  5. Delays in federal workers’ comp can stall medical care ...

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    Joe Mansour, the workers' compensation specialist at the country’s largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, said he has been brought in to work on almost ...

  6. Disability insurance - Wikipedia

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    However, workers' compensation is in fact more than just income insurance, because it compensates for economic loss (past and future), reimbursement or payment of medical and life expenses (functioning in this case as a form of health insurance), and benefits payable to the dependents of workers killed during employment (offering a form of life ...

  7. Defense Base Act - Wikipedia

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    The Defense Base Act (DBA) (ch. 357 of the 77th United States Congress, 55 Stat. 622, enacted August 16, 1941, codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 1651–1654) is an extension of the federal workers' compensation program that covers longshoremen and harbor workers, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act 33 U.S.C. §§ 901–950.

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