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Domestic Servant Exemption

Workers' compensation coverage for domestic servants is limited. Such limitation is generally based on the exclusion for part-time employees or the statutory exemption for employers with less than the requisite minimum number of employees. Many...

Evidence in Workers' Compensation Administrative Proceedings

Workers' compensation administrative proceedings are considered less formal than their judicial counterparts, due in large part to the treatment of evidence. Though the procedural aspects are more relaxed than in a judicial proceeding, the...

Obtaining Workers' Compensation Benefits

Obtaining Workers' Compensation Benefits

To obtain workers' compensation benefits, an employee must have suffered an on-the-job injury or occupational disease. Once this occurs, the injured employee must...

Violation of Law or Commission of Crime

As a general rule, an employee is not necessarily withdrawn from workers' compensation eligibility if he is injured while violating a law or committing a crime in furtherance of his job duties. Most often, the violation of a law or commission of...

Workers' Compensation & SSDI

Injury While in the Course of Employment

Workers' Compensation Eligibility

It is a threshold matter that for an employee to be eligible to recover workers' compensation...