Workers’ compensation was originally created to assure workers who suffer an on-the-job accident would get necessary medical treatment and receive a percentage of their wages while recovering. However, some saw this as a biased system. If covered by the correct workers’ compensation, employers see many benefits, including having their expenses limited to medical treatment, wage losses, disfigurement, and, when applicable, permanent disability or death benefits and not facing a negligence lawsuit. With the increase of the freelance economy in the U.S., many employers don’t know what they need to provide in the way of workers’ compensation to their contractors. Workers’ compensation laws are governed by the individual states rather than the federal…