Worker’s Compensation   [Archived Catalog]
2015-2016 School of Law Academic Catalog
   

LAW 635 - Worker’s Compensation

Credits, 2 sem. hrs.
A study of compensation to injured workers for industrial accidents, injuries, and diseases. Included are a detailed treatment of workers’ remedies prior to and apart from workers’ compensation, the compensation principle, the employer-employee relationship, accidents during the course of employment, accidents arising out of the employment, accident and occupational disease, proof of causation, effect of independent causes after the accident, compensation for non-fatal injury, death benefits, and the third party suit.