The history of the ideas and practices underlying workers’ compensation laws is varied. While many commentators attribute their origins to Prussian Germany in the latter half of the 1800s,[1] others have found early models of scheduled payments for loss of body parts under Hammurabi’s Code, which provided a set of rewards for injuries and their permanent impairments.[2] Regardless of when (or where) they began, workers’ compensation laws often have a unifying feature: in exchange for compensating an employee for work-related injuries without examination of fault, the employer is entitled to immunity from being sued under common law.[3] This quid pro quo concept has a significant role in employment discrimination cases.