When Employees Travel to Other States to Work

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Traveling employees create a MAJOR problem if not property addressed up front. 

Workers' compensation is a state-based system; this means that every state applies its own rules, requirements and guidelines. When employees leave one state to work temporarily in another state, a major workers' compensation problem can be created. Specifically: "Which state" workers' compensation law applies?"  

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

• Understand the relationship between extraterritoriality and reciprocity in workers' compensation
• Learn what options are initially available to an injured worker
• Be able to describe the two "jurisdictional" tests
• Be better able to decide which states require 3.A. status

Major Subjects

• Extraterritoriality and reciprocity in workers' compensation
• Benefit options available to an injured worker
• "Jurisdictional" tests to decide which jurisdiction has authority
• States requiring 3.A. status