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Mental Injuries: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Many workers’ compensation jurisdictions and work-disability insurers have noted increasing mental disorder (also called psychological injury, mental injury) claims over time. US Social Security provides benefits to workers for certain disabilities. In this post, we survey some of the data reflecting this increase.

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Temporary Total Disability for Work injury: What will Workers’ Compensation pay?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

In the accompanying slides and in some responses, I provide additional references as a starting point for understanding and comparing initial workers’ compensation. All workers’ compensation systems pay the same rate for lost wages…right? I could find only one jurisdiction with no maximum on insured earnings: Manitoba.