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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Identifying past events and their impacts—how well we have learned from past events- is critical to such preparations. The “Unknown” occupational disease risk in workers’ compensation When workers’ compensation systems started a century ago, the focus was “industrial accidents”. This limitation was noted at the time.

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The Next Thing?

Florida Workers' Comp

Fewer may remember Surrogates (Walt Disney Pictures 2009), a strange combination of virtuality and robotics. And for those who long to self-isolate in their home environ, who can forget The Net (Columbia Pictures 1995). That last one was about a woman who worked from home and effectively lost her identity to thieves in the process.

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