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 §§ 11–19.]


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