Workers compensation, a.ka. Workmans comp, is a benefit system designed to help workers who have become injured or sick due to their work conditions or environment. Unfortunately, it is also a system whose rules vary state by state and whose outcomes are often unfair to sick and injured workers. Because the system is complicated, to win a workmans comp claim, a worker should learn about the workers compensation system in their state and should certainly consider getting a workers compensation attorney or lawyer to handle a claim. |
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Without a doubt, many employers, if given the opportunity, would retaliate against workers who filed for workers compensation benefits. And the motivation behind this would have everything to do with money since the filing of workmans comp claims drives up costs for employers.
In fact, many employers routinely use investigative agencies to determine if a workers compensation claim is groundless (and to "trip up" even those workers who are truly injured and have solid workmans comp claim). Legally, however, an employer is prohibited from retaliating. This includes taking action against an employee who files for workers compensation benefits (such as disciplining them or even firing them) or taking action against a worker who assists someone else in their worker's compensation claim.
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