workers compensation

California workers compensation

California workers' compensation is a situated insurance program that has been implemented for over a hundred years. The program functions under California Legal Code, which applies to all state and public employees, most full-time employees in private sectors, and even some part-time employees.

California workers comp

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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