re: #24 Decatur Deb

Different rules for different states, but Workers’ Comp is intended to be the sole remedy for on-the job injury care. It was designed to protect employers from liability, not to protect workers.

Actually, it is designed to both protect employers from tort suits and to protect workers from having their own negligence (which is the cause of a lot of workplace injuries) used as a defense, as it would be in a tort action. So it’s a trade: if you get injured at work, you get some money and your medical paid, and you don’t have to worry about having to prove that the injury was someone else’s fault.