Get To Learn More About Workers Compensation Atlanta GA

الثلاثاء، 8 نوفمبر 2016

By Catherine Wright


Many are times people get different forms of injuries in the process of work. The employer should be directly responsible to these injuries. If you are injured on job and qualify for Workers Compensation Atlanta GA, you ought to receive proper medical treatment, payments for the time off while undergoing treatment and recovering, a compensations payment for any form of disability resulting from your injury as well a job retraining if you cannot return to your initial job.

In Atlanta city, there were some old laws which were used to protect workers who are involved in accidents while they are working. This old system was found to be ineffective since it was not easy to prove the negligence of the workers. Besides, the process of processing this took a lot of time and was expensive as well. Due to the mentioned reasons, workers compensation laws were introduced to solve these problems during work. In simple terms, workers compensation is a kind of insurance which all employers are needed to obtain as measure of protecting their employees.

It should be noted that not all injuries are covered by the insurance even if it happened in the place of work. For an injury to be covered, the injury suffered by the worker should have been due to an accidental personal injury in the course of job duty. Just because a person is hurt while on job duty may not be enough for the insurance to cover his or her treatment. Besides, if you can provide evidence that you have an occupational disease, you may also be eligible to this insurance benefits.

In determining whether a particular injury fall under the insurance coverage, the most important thing to understand is that the law protects only employees. The law clearly provides legal guidance on who is a covered employee or employer. Therefore, to get the benefits, a genuine relationship between the employer and the employee must exist.

If the genuine relationship between employers and employees is in existence, then the next factor that is considered is whether the injury was a genuine accident. That is, it happened by chance or without design.

Apart from accidental requirements, occupational diseases many also call for compensation. These diseases are caused by the nature of the working surrounding. The common ones include eye, skin or lungs illness. There probable cause is long term exposure to harmful substances which are used at work place. An employee who is affected by occupational illness may be entitled to compensation even if no accident occurred.

For an injury to be covered, it must have occurred out of employment. If the conditions under which a particular work is needed to be performed by the employer courses injury, then it is said to arise out of employment. The focus is usually on the extent of exposure of employees to risk or danger due to job requirements.

Also, for an injury to be compensated, it must arise in the course of work or employment. This means that at the time of accident, the employer was at his or her place of work, during business hours and doing a job assigned by the employer.




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