Workers compensation is a type of compulsory insurance, provided by employers for their employees, that provides wage replacement, medical expenses coverage and other benefits to employees for injuries arising out of and in the course of employment. As part of the grand bargain that led to employers having to carry this kind of insurance, workers’ compensation law prohibits employees from suing their employers if they are injured do to their employers’ negligence. So for example, if an employer negligently fails to provide a guardrail and because of that an employee falls and is injured, the employee would be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits but could not sue the employer for pain and suffering and other damages the way that he could if the accident happened at a store or a restaurant rather than at his place of employment.
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