{"id":397,"date":"2012-08-02T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:17:54","slug":"origin-of-workers-comp-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2012\/08\/articles\/workplace-safety\/exclusive-remedy\/origin-of-workers-comp-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin of Workers&#8217; Comp Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=kVx948coJck\">Click here <\/a>for a short video on how workers&#8217; compensation laws developed in the U.S.&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember that each state has its own laws, and that the idea is to compensation all injured workers to some extent.&nbsp; In order to require that employers purchase workers&#8217; compensation insurance policies, the cost has to be affordable for employers.&nbsp; That means that injured workers are not compensated 100% for lost wages.&nbsp; Injured workers &nbsp;do not receive the same type of settlements that people may recover when they sue someone&nbsp;at fault for their injury &nbsp;who is not a co-worker or an employer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for a short video on how workers&#8217; compensation laws developed in the U.S.&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember that each state has its own laws, and that the idea is to compensation all injured workers to some extent.&nbsp; In order to require that employers purchase workers&#8217; compensation insurance policies, the cost has to be affordable for employers.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2012\/08\/articles\/workplace-safety\/exclusive-remedy\/origin-of-workers-comp-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Origin of Workers&#8217; Comp Laws<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[172,53,505],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusive-remedy","tag-compensation","tag-exclusive-remedy","tag-workers"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}