Clearly they don't have a no fault workers' compensation system. Looks like this is the first step in development of a WC system - which is taken for granted here in Canada. Development of WC usually takes the path of workers gaining the right to sue employers as a first step, then a compromise reached in which all workers become eligible for wage replacement compensation (usually at some level below full compensation for all income streams) in exchange for giving up the right to sue by workers for both lost income and lost capacity to enjoy life. Suits are both risky and expensive to adjudicate (all or nothing to be determined by judge and perhaps jury) so workers and employers collectively often see the benefit of the WC compromise.

In Canada all jurisdictions have workers compensation systems in which the right to sue employers is removed in exchange for benefits to workers for work related injuries without the attribution of fault.

Ike