Workers' compensation insurance provides weekly cash payments and reimburses health care costs for covered employees who develop a work-related illness or sustain an injury while on the job. It also provides payments to qualified dependents of a worker who dies from a compensable illness or injury. Each state establishes a workers' compensation __________, which is responsible for administering workers' compensation laws and handling appeals for denied claims or cases in which a worker feels compensation was too low.
a. board
b. fund
c. plan
d. program
Question 2
The Merchant Marine Act (or Jones Act) provides seamen with the same protection from employer __________ as the Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA) provides railroad workers.
a. assiduousness
b. maintenance
c. negligence
d. oversight