Legal Dictionary
There are a plethora of legal terms involved in your case. Our legal dictionary helps define terms that can become confusing from A-Z.
Demurrer
A written response to a complaint. The response occurs when a defendant asserts the law used by a plaintiff is insufficient or inapplicable, even though alleged facts may be true.
Denied Workers’ Compensation Claim
A denied workers’ compensation claim occurs when an insurance company believes your injury or illness is not covered by workers’ compensation and they have notified you of the decision.
Disability
Physical or mental impairments that limit or affect your life activities. A condition that makes engaging in routine daily tasks, physical, social, and work, more difficult.
Disability Management
A process to prevent disability from occurring or to intervene early, following the start of a disability, to mitigate the damage a disability might have on one’s life. Disability management is most effective by starting early in the recovery process for severe injury cases like spinal injuries. It is common for a team of medical professionals, a rehabilitation specialist […]
Duty
Duty /duːti/ Ordinarily, people owe a duty to those around them to use a standard of due care such that a “reasonable person” would use in the same situation. Someone may owe you a duty because it was established by a law, a contract, their relationship to you, a duty they have volunteered, or through […]
Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS)
An Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS) is an electronic system intended to simplify and improve the Division of Workers’ Compensation case management process.
Essential Functions
Duties considered fundamental to a job. When being considered for alternative work, you must have both the physical and mental qualifications to fulfill the job’s essential functions.
Filing
Sending or delivering a document as part of the legal process. The date of filing is generally the date the document is received.
Good Faith
Acting in an honest manner, without taking advantage of other people or breaking promises you’ve made to act. Good faith applies to all types of promises and transactions and dealings. See also: Bad Faith.
