Cracking Under the Pressure of Workers’ Compensation: Testing Your Workers’ Compensation Knowledge

Test your knowledge of workers’ compensation by answering 21 questions covering the most important workers’ compensation facts and concepts. A wide array of work comp-specific topics is tested in this article:

• What makes an injury compensable;
• What is the “coming and going rule” and its exceptions;
• When is a disease compensable;
• What types of claims covered under employers’ liability;
• Key audit rules and guidelines; and
• The different types of “employees.”

Note that each question is assigned a point value. Challenge your friends, co-workers (if they are not your friends) and anyone else you think you can beat.

Answer will be published Monday, April 20.

The reference source for this quiz is “The Insurance Professionals’ Practical Guide to Workers’ Compensation: From History through Audit.”

Here goes:

• “De Facto” employees
• “De Jure” employees