Workers' Compensation

Catalog description

This course will cover the essential aspects of workers' compensation law including extent of coverage, the various levels and varieties of benefits provided, and how claims are established and enforced. The course will touch on relevant aspects of Evidence and Administrative Law. As topics of current interest, the course will consider how workers’ compensation exclusivity interacts with wrongful death and public nuisance suits filed during the Covid-19 era. Finally, the course will analyze the interplay of worker’ compensation and tort law in third-party actions. The course should be beneficial to students interested in personal injury litigation, employment law, or workers’ compensation law.