What is Workers' Compensation?

This is a model act adopted throughout the United States that offers scheduled benefits and compensation to certain injured workers who are injured on the job, regardless of whose fault the injury might have been. This model supplants the common law fellow servant rule, which required the injured person to sue and prove fault against a co-worker. Since the co-worker never had much money, the injured worker had no viable remedy and the legislature responded. Each state has a separate system and rules for workers' compensation cases.