True or false questions·  The mainreason most employees falsely claim work-related injuries is because they wantthe PPD benefits.True or false·  hiropractorsare considered “medical providers” only when the employee/claimant uses them astheir primary medical provider.Trueor false·  Theaffirmative defense of “contributory negligence” was a complete bar to recoveryat common lawTrue or false·  Assumptionof risk is still a viable defense to injuries that occur on your premises. Forexample, when an injury is to a vendor at your shop.True or false ·  The streetrisk doctrine states that persons injured on the street cannot collectcompensation under workers’ compensation because they were injured “coming andgoing” to work. True or false·  One of themajor reasons for the elimination of negligence in the workplace for injuredworkers is because of the language barrier between employers and employees.True or false·  It isimportant for employers to get a detailed account of what caused an injury onthe job. Therefore, having the employee fill out the first report of injury iscritical to a good safety investigation.True or false·  Grossstupidity on the job, which caused the employees injury, is a legitimatedefense to a claim for a work related injury.True or false·  Idiopathicfalls, like unexplained falls, are based on situations where that facts aretotally unknown and thus, are not compensable.·  All riskscausing injury to a claimant can be brought within three categories. Theseinclude:Unforseen risks, personal risks, and neutral risks.Neutral risks and personal risks, and ideopathic risksRisks distinctly associated with the employment, personalrisks, and neutral risksMixed risks, neutral risks and unforseen risks.·  Common lawdefenses include:Assumption of riskContributory negligencehe Doctrine of Respondent SuperiorA and B onlyAll of the above.·  in moststates, the definition of “injury” includes psychological injuries only when:Psychological injuries are never compensablehey are directly a result of a physical injuryThey are severe and documented by a competent medical providerThey are stress-related to a significant incident at work,such as seeing someone get killed at work·  Mostclaims for on-premises injuries fall within one of two general categoriesInjuries sustained while performing one’s appointed tasks andself inflicted injuriesnjuries caused by the negligence of the employee andsituations where a fellow employee caused the risk or hazard.Self inflicted injuries and situations where a fellow employeecreated a situation that contributed to the injuryInjuries while performing one’s tasks and injuries whileengaged in other incident activities not directly involved with performingthose appointed tasks.·  idiopathicfalls, like unexplained falls, are based on situations where that facts aretotally unknown and thus, are not compensable.True or falseMultiple choice questions·  Anindependent medical examination is useful only when we want to have anunbiased opinion on which of the following elements of an alleged work injury.Verification of a worker injury.Medical necessity of treatment.Modification of worker duties and activities as required bythe level of injury sustained.Extent or degree of permanent as compared to temporaryimpairment to workerAll the above·  What istrue of the proximate cause test?It is one of the 5 lines of interpretation of the “arising outof” the employment test of compensability.The test requires that the harms be foreseeable Both A and B·  If weconsider the 3 categories of risk, personal, neutral and occupational, andconsider that there are only two places where this risk may fall, i.e.,either on the employee or the employer, then why should the employer pay forsituations where, for example, the employee is hit and injured by a straybullet?The employer should pay because the employer should pay.he employer should not pay because there was no increased riskto the employee.The employer should not pay because it is absolutely unfair.The employer should pay because there are only two placeswhere the risk may fall, and the positional risk doctrine would suggest thatthis is the correct analysis.·  JudgeCardoza is best known for ??His rule on dual purpose tripsHis theory on compensability.This doctrine on social and recreational activities.All the aboveI·  if anemployee had only been working one week, they should not be able to claim arepetitive trauma injury, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, because thatcondition requires an injury to occur over time and one week is not enough.The counter argument is;There is no counter argument because this is correctThat if the person already had carpal tunnel syndrome and liedabout it, then they should be fired.t is irrelevant because they were not injured on the job.It is irrelevant because if they meet the 2 prong test ofcompensability, then how long it takes is irrelevantNeutral risks and personal risks, and ideopathic risks.