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Mental Injuries: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Social Insurance mental injury data Social insurance generally covers a wider population than workers’ compensation but may reflect trends that are felt by workers’ compensation and disability insurance. Unlike in the US SSDI, I could find no data isolating just those who had also filed workers’ compensation claims.

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The Disability Insurance “trust gap” Part 1: Causes

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Whether you work as a Case Manager for workers’ compensation system, a client services representative for a transport-accident personal-injury insurance, a claims administrator for a non-occupational disability insurance plan, or a return-to-work specialist for a third-party administrator, you will face the disability insurance “trust gap”.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

To forestall this eventuality, the majority of North American workers’ compensation jurisdictions adjust periodic payments (sometimes called workers’ compensation pensions or permanent disability payments) to account for increases in the cost of living. No COLA was payable in January 2010, January 2011, or in January 2016.