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AI and Workers' Comp - Summary of ARPA presentation

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AI will not change the functions of any disability insurance or workers’ compensation systems. The impact at the interface between the organization and those it serves (stakeholders, injured workers, employers, advocates, etc.) Workers’ compensation or disability insurance are not islands.

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Moments that Matter

Florida Workers' Comp

The 1948 adoption of the Mississippi Workers' Compensation Law (marking the unanimity of this concept in the nation). The implementation of Social Security Disability Insurance (1956). I find these ten notable and foundational to workers' compensation in the 21st century. The passage of the Job Safety Law of 1970 (OSHA).

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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? Certain group disability plans are completely worker funded and may not be taxable.

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Can a worker claim workers’ compensation for COVID-19 exposure, illness or quarantine?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

For example, in British Columbia, the test for work-relatedness is “causative significance”, meaning the worker’s employment must have been of causative significance in producing the disease. To satisfy the causative significance test, the worker’s employment must have been more than a trivial or insignificant aspect.

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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. per cent beginning on January 1.