The word 'compensable' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is commonly used in the legal and business fields to describe something that can be given compensation or recompense for. It is mostly used in reference to financial or monetary compensation. For example: - The victim's medical expenses were deemed compensable by the insurance company. - The court determined that the employee's injury was compensable under workers' compensation laws. - The contract stated that any damages resulting from the breach of agreement would be compensable by the offending party.
By the early 20th century insurance companies recognized asbestos fabrication as among the occupations most dangerous to human health, and by the 1930s-that is to say, before the outbreak of World War II-workers' compensation systems listed asbestosis as a compensable condition.
Compensable claims now include those involving back pain, stress, and heart conditions traceable to employment conditions.
"Ample evidence was presented to show that Tupa suffered a compensable accidental injury during the course of his employment".
Soon after choosing Duerson as one of the union's three representatives on the disability board, the former union chief Gene Upshaw said, "I just don't believe" that mental decline is related to football — and therefore compensable at all.
Since safer guns would mean fewer compensable injuries or deaths, the tax should be adjustable, rising when injuries and deaths increase, and falling when they decrease.
The Cincinnati Bengals have for several years included language in their contracts requiring players to file claims only in Ohio — where cumulative trauma is not compensable — and are currently asserting the validity of those provisions in federal court, fending off more than 30 claims.
"One of the real challenges here is going to be what constitutes a direct compensable claim and what is a ripple effect, indirect claim," he said.
The commonwealth also argued the previous judges had erred in including the effects of the compensable acts on future descendants, and in including a component for "a sense of failed responsibility for the obligation under traditional laws and customs to have cared for and looked after the land".
It said assessments of cultural loss would vary between cases, depending on the relationship of the native title holders to their land, the nature of the compensable act and its effect on the connection.
The state's rules also say, "Work is compensable -- that is, something for which an employee is entitled to be paid".
Despite the questions about the Air Force study that plague many scientists, Dr. Gough said, "I'm certain that diabetes will be turned into a compensable disease for Vietnam veterans".
