Jail inmates: workers' compensation.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees sustained in the course of employment. Existing law provides that each inmate of a state penal or correctional institution shall be entitled to workers' compensation benefits for injury arising out of and in the course of assigned employment and for the death of the inmate if the injury proximately causes death, subject to certain conditions. Existing law provides that whenever a person confined in a county jail, industrial farm, road camp, or city jail suffers injuries or death while working in the prevention or suppression of forest, brush, or grass fires, he or she shall be considered to be an employee of the county or city, respectively, for purposes of workers' compensation. This bill would provide that each inmate of a city, county, or city and county that provides workers' compensation benefits for an inmate of a jail, is entitled to workers' compensation benefits for injuries arising out of, and in the course of, assigned employment, and for the death of the inmate if the injury proximately causes the death, subject to specified conditions.