Consequential bodily injury suits

Term · Insurance and risk management · MLC-T-INS-000904

Suits by family members of an injured worker, such as a spouse, child, parent, or sibling, seeking damages for their own losses that result from the worker's bodily injury, for example loss of consortium or loss of services. Because the claimants are not the employee, workers' compensation exclusive remedy does not necessarily bar them against the employer. They are covered under Part Two, employers liability, of the standard workers' compensation policy rather than under general liability.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-INS-000904
Field	Insurance and risk management
Subject	Workers Compensation

Record as JSON

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  "id": "MLC-T-INS-000904",
  "term": "Consequential bodily injury suits",
  "field": "Insurance and risk management",
  "definition": "Suits by family members of an injured worker, such as a spouse, child, parent, or sibling, seeking damages for their own losses that result from the worker's bodily injury, for example loss of consortium or loss of services. Because the claimants are not the employee, workers' compensation exclusive remedy does not necessarily bar them against the employer. They are covered under Part Two, employers liability, of the standard workers' compensation policy rather than under general liability.",
  "subject": "Workers Compensation",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/insurance/consequential-bodily-injury-suits/"
}

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