A Defense Available to the Employer in an Action for Workers

question 85

Multiple Choice

A defense available to the employer in an action for workers' compensation is that:

• A) the employee assumed the risk.
• B) the employee's injury happened before he came to work.
• C) the employee was contributorily negligent.
• D) a co-worker caused the injury.

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Definitions:

Survivorship Curves

Graphical representations that show the number of individuals surviving at each age for a given species or group.

Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.

Exponential Growth

A process of increase where the quantity grows at a rate proportional to its current value, resulting in a rapid rise over time.

Semelparous

Having a single reproductive effort in a lifetime.