{"id":168,"date":"2016-03-30T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.targetmarketing-betasite-02.com\/Gotdenied\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/does-workers-compensation-pay-for-an-illness-you-got-at-work\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T19:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:28:33","slug":"does-workers-compensation-pay-for-an-illness-you-got-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/does-workers-compensation-pay-for-an-illness-you-got-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Workers Compensation Pay For An Illness You Got At Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong> I got the flu from someone at work and now I can&#8217;t go in. I&#8217;m missing out on my regular pay, can I claim Worker&#8217;s Compensation?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-900 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gotdenied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Biebuyck_Row-9_SI-for-blog-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Biebuyck_Row 9_SI for blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> Worker&#8217;s Compensation is paid when the reason you\u00a0can&#8217;t work is because of an injury that has been proved to have occurred on the job or because of your job. 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I&#8217;m missing out on my regular pay, can I claim Worker&#8217;s Compensation? &nbsp; ANSWER: Worker&#8217;s Compensation is paid when the reason you\u00a0can&#8217;t work is because of an injury that has been proved to have occurred on the job or because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/does-workers-compensation-pay-for-an-illness-you-got-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Does Workers Compensation Pay For An Illness You Got At Work?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[185,209,210,211,212,141,213],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-compensation","tag-illness","tag-work","tag-worker-compensation-answers","tag-worker-compensation-attorney","tag-worker-compensation-questions","tag-workers-compensation-help","tag-workers-compensation-payments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}