What is the purpose of Workers’ Compensation?
The purpose of Workers Compensation is to assure the quick and efficient delivery of disability and medical benefits to an injured worker, and to facilitate the worker’s return to gainful employment at a reasonable cost to the employer. It is supposed to be a self-executing system, but it is often not. It is also a system in which the laws are supposed to be construed not liberally in favor of either employee or employer, but it is often not. Note, nowhere does the law emphasize that it is there to actually help the worker have a better life.


