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Dictionary of Legal Terms
Workers' Compensation
A program that provides replacement income and medical expenses to employees who are injured or become ill in the course and scope of their employment. Financial benefits may also extend to the workers' dependents and to the survivors of workers who are killed on the job. The employee is not required to prove that the injuries were caused by employer negligence to recover under workers' compensation laws. Employers are liable even if they are not at fault. Under Ohio's workers' compensation law, participating employers pay workers' compensation premiums into a state fund, administered by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (OBWC), to provide benefits for workers who are injured or become ill in the course and scope of their employment. Employers who comply with Ohio's workers' compensation laws generally cannot be sued in court for negligence. However, certain cases of workplace injury-arising out of certain dangerous conditions known to the employer-are called intentional torts and may form the basis of a tort claim even though injury lawsuits against employers are generally prohibited by the law that provides workers' compensation to injured employees. See tort.
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