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April 08, 2025

What Is Workers’ Compensation, And Who Qualifies?

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00:00:00 [Music] so to put it simply workers compensation is the financial help for people that have been injured or hurt at work in order for a person to qualify for workers compensation benefits in Wisconsin there must first be an employer and employee relationship second the parties must be subject to the Wisconsin Workers Compensation Act third at the time of the alleged injury the employee must be performing service growing out of an incidental to their employment and fourth the accident or disease causing injury uh must arise out

00:00:48 of the alleged employment so to put it in simpler terms you have to be an employee and not an independent contractor the incident and/or employer needs to be physically located in Wisconsin and something has to actually happen or cause the injury and assuming that you meet all of those requirements you as an injured worker would qualify for workers compensation benefits in Wisconsin [Music]

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