Compensation is a general term that refers to the money paid by someone who caused an injury (or other damages) to the person who suffered it. This money can offset the costs and impacts of the injury, but in many cases, it can never truly make up for it. Compensation is at the heart of …
Occupational Disease
An occupational disease is a disease, illness, or other long-term health condition that is acquired in the course of a particular trade, occupation, process, or employment in which the employee is exposed to such disease. Georgia workers’ compensation law addresses more than just acute injuries at work. It also provides compensation for diseases and illnesses …
Compensable Injury
Having a compensable injury basically means that your injury qualifies for workers compensation benefits. When is an injury compensable in Georgia? In Georgia state law, a workplace injury is “compensable” if it meets two requirements: The injury “arises out of” the work you do. That means there is some kind of cause-effect relationship between the …
Benefit
When most people use the word “benefit,” they mean the benefits they get as part of a job—but that’s only indirectly related to the way “benefit” is used in law. Most of the time, benefit is a general term for any gainful outcome from an arrangement, an action, or a piece of property. It’s often …
Assignment of Benefits
An assignment of benefits takes a lot of the hassle out of paying third parties to whom you might owe money after an accident or another event that triggers your insurance coverage. Without an assignment of benefits for your health insurance, for example, your insurance company would pay you and then you would have to …
Workers Compensation
Workers compensation is a set of benefits guaranteed to all workers, regardless of what job you’re in. It’s essentially an insurance policy that your employer is required by law to carry. When any employee is injured on the job, the workers comp coverage pays for 100% of their medical costs. If you are injured while …
