Injuries or work-related illnesses that render a worker permanently unable to return to their job may also receive a lump-sum settlement. It’s often this lump-sum amount that is a point of disagreement between the worker and the employer.
As long as your injury is job related, you don’t necessarily need to be at your actual workplace in order to receive workers’ compensation coverage. Thus, injuries sustained while traveling on business or running an errand should also be covered.
Judge Learned Hand created the term “calculus of negligence,” which is a formula to determine if a legal duty of care has been violated. Judge Hand established this term in the 1947 case of the U.S. v. Carroll Towing, where a barge had come unrestrained from a dock and caused damages.
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