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Preparing for the Next Epidemic of Occupational Disease

Workers' Compensation

This standard would reduce occupational exposure to SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, influenza viruses, and other pathogens that cause major personal and economic damage yearly and impact the workers' compensation system. gelmans.com (10/26/2023), [link] © 2001-2023 Jon L Gelman. Live Updates …. All rights reserved.

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New EPA Rule Will Lighten the Burden of Proving an Asbestos-Related Disease Claim

Workers' Compensation

Despite the long legacy of severe and fatal claims, including lung cancer and mesothelioma, brought within the workers’ compensation system, the substance is still being used in products, and exposure continues from asbestos already in place in occupational settings. gelmans.com (2023), [link] © 2001-2023 Jon L Gelman.

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Toxic Flight Attendant Uniforms Result in a $1.1 Million Verdict

Workers' Compensation

The verdict in the American Airlines flight attendants highlights another potential emerging wave in the workers’ compensation system. … Gelman of Wayne, NJ, is the author of NJ Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters) and co-author of the national treatise Modern Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thomson-Reuters).

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Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Occupational Exposure to Cellphone Radiation

Workers' Compensation

Cancer—Occupational exposure to carcinogens/aggravation and acceleration, Gelman, Jon L, Workers’ Compensation Law , 38 NJPRAC 9.18 (Thomson-Reuters 2023.) For now, as in the past, the workers’ compensation system will assume the role of the decision-maker in this ongoing argument over safety in the workplace. …. 350 N.J.Super.

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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

in 2001 to 15% in 2021) in the last two decades. Many workers’ compensation systems impose limits on benefits for older workers. average) and a quarter of females (25.7% The workforce participation rate of older Australians more than doubled (from 6.1%

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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Not all components of employer costs for a worker attract a premium but most workers’ compensation system defined which components are considered “reportable” or “assessable” payroll. For the purpose of this discussion, these rating provisions are not critical. What is critical is how “payroll” figures into the process.

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Workers’ compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 2

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Worker’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, WE Upjohn Institute, January 2001 and Terry Thomason and John F. Burton, Jr, The Employers’ Costs of Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Ontario and Selected Other Canadian and U.S. Jurisdictions , Workers’ Disability Income Systems, Inc.,