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The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled illegal immigrants injured on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits regardless of their legal status.
In a case involving coffee roaster Farmer Bros. Co., which had tried to deny workers’ compensation benefits to an employee who was in the country illegally saying federal immigration laws superseded the state’s workers’ compensation system, the court disagreed.
Upholding an earlier decision against Farmer Bros. by California’s Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, the three-judge panel unanimously ruled “California law has expressly declared immigration status irrelevant to the issue of liability to pay compensation to an injured worker.”
The plaintiff claimed he injured his shoulders, back, neck and hands by repeatedly lifting heavy sacks of coffee beans.
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