Legal Question in Business Law in New York

Re: workmans comp

Worker's comp is a whole area of law unto itself.

Worker's comp is basically an insurance program into which the employer and the employee both must pay. This insurance payout then covers the worker in the event of job-related injury or illness in lieu of litigating each case. It is wildly popular with the courts because it clears their dockets of all these cases of work-related injury that would otherwise be clogging the system.

Whether what your husband's boss is doing is "legal" or not depends on more circumstances than you've given here. I suggest you contact a worker's comp attorney in your geographic area and pick his/her brain about the situation.

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