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Article Title: US workers' comp covers Giffords', others' care
Snippet of Article: "...The compensation act covers all medical care that the federal Office of Workers' Compensation considers "likely to cure, give relief (and) reduce the degree or the period of disability." Such care would include hospital, rehabilitation and home therapy services "for as long as residuals of an injury continue," federal law says...."
Article Title: For mine inspector, tragedy led to misery
Snippet of Article: "...Labor Department required him to repay the workers' comp program for what it had laid out for his medical care and lost wages, minus "reasonable attorney fees and court costs." The reason? The Federal Employees' Compensation Act, supported by long-established case law, mandates that beneficiaries of litigation against a third party must reimburse the federal government before getting their share of the lawsuit's proceeds...."
