The California workers' comp insurance program
California workers' comp is part of a nationwide, state-by-state social insurance program with a history and a repertoire of benefiting the employed when they have an accident, fall sick, or incur a serious disease, condition, or illness.
When you "sustain an injury 'arising out of and in the course of' employment," California workers' becomes available in six types: you may receive covered medical care; you may collect temporary disability benefits; you may be able to collect permanent disability benefits (for cancer, for example); you can typically receive vocational rehabilitation; you might be able to use supplemental job displacement benefits; and your beneficiaries are able to collect death benefits.
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