workers’ compensation

workers’ compensation. A system of providing benefits to an employee for injuries occurring in the scope of employment. • Most workers’-compensation statutes both hold the employer strictly liable and bar the employee from suing the employer in tort. — Abbr. WC. — Also termed workmen’s compensation; employers’ liability. [Cases: Workers’ Compensation 11. C.J.S. Workmen’s Compensation […]

A system of providing benefits to an employee for injuries occurring in the scope of employment. • Most workers’-compensation statutes both hold the employer strictly liable and bar the employee from suing the employer in tort. — Abbr. WC. — Also termed workmen’s compensation; employers’ liability. [Cases: Workers’ Compensation 11.C.J.S. Workmen’s Compensation §§ 11–19.]