Many are times people get different forms of injuries in the process of work. The employer should be directly responsible to these injuries. If you are injured on job and qualify for Workers Compensation Atlanta GA, you ought to receive proper medical treatment, payments for the time off while undergoing treatment and recovering, a compensations payment for any form of disability resulting from your injury as well a job retraining if you cannot return to your initial job.

Atlanta city has had some form of protecting employees who are hurt while working. The old system which required lawsuits against workers was found to be ineffective. The negligence by employers was usually difficult and arguably impossible to prove which made the legal process time consuming and expensive as well, with almost no benefits paid to injured employees during the process. This is why compensation law was introduces to provide statutory solution to this problem. Workers compensation thus became a new kind of insurance that all employers are required to acquire to protect their employees.

It should be noted that not all injuries are covered by the insurance even if it happened in the place of work. For an injury to be covered, the injury suffered by the worker should have been due to an accidental personal injury in the course of job duty. Just because a person is hurt while on job duty may not be enough for the insurance to cover his or her treatment. Besides, if you can provide evidence that you have an occupational disease, you may also be eligible to this insurance benefits.

In determining whether a particular injury fall under the insurance coverage, the most important thing to understand is that the law protects only employees. The law clearly provides legal guidance on who is a covered employee or employer. Therefore, to get the benefits, a genuine relationship between the employer and the employee must exist.

If the genuine relationship between employers and employees is in existence, then the next factor that is considered is whether the injury was a genuine accident. That is, it happened by chance or without design.

Apart from accidental requirements, occupational diseases many also call for compensation. These diseases are caused by the nature of the working surrounding. The common ones include eye, skin or lungs illness. There probable cause is long term exposure to harmful substances which are used at work place. An employee who is affected by occupational illness may be entitled to compensation even if no accident occurred.

For an injury to be covered, it must have occurred out of employment. If the conditions under which a particular work is needed to be performed by the employer courses injury, then it is said to arise out of employment. The focus is usually on the extent of exposure of employees to risk or danger due to job requirements.

Besides, for a compensable claim, the injury must also be in the course of employment. It is slightly different from injury arising out of employment. The attention factor in this case is time, place and circumstance of the injury.