{"id":5030,"date":"2016-08-17T23:45:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2016-08-17T23:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:45:51","slug":"100th-anniversary-idaho-workers-compensation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/100th-anniversary-idaho-workers-compensation-act\/","title":{"rendered":"100th Anniversary of the Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Fred J. Lewis<\/p>\n<p>In 1917, the workers of the state of Idaho got some good news. The Idaho legislature passed the Idaho worker\u2019s Compensation Act. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of the Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation Act. The grand bargain that was struck between employers and laborers centered on the requirement to prove fault on the part of the employer in order to recover. In exchange for sure and certain relief, the injured workers of Idaho traded their ability to bring negligence actions against their employer and the Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation claim became their sole remedy. <\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation Act is a no fault exclusive remedy by an injured worker against their employer. The Act was never intended to make an injured worker whole. However, it at least provides a subsistence amount of benefits that lessens the sting of devastating injuries that happen at work. Specifically, it provides the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/100th-anniversary-idaho-workers-compensation-act\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading 100th Anniversary of the Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation Act\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fred J. Lewis In 1917, the workers of the state of Idaho got some good news. The Idaho legislature passed the Idaho worker\u2019s Compensation Act. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of the Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation Act. The grand bargain that was struck between employers and laborers centered on the requirement to prove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-comp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>100th Anniversary of Work. Comp. Act|RacineOlson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Fred J. Lewis In 1917, the workers of the state of Idaho got some good news. The Idaho legislature passed the Idaho worker\u2019s Compensation Act. 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