HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. The Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of August 2023 found that employers are planning a 3.9

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 23, 2022

The world of workers' compensation is geographic and diverse. There is no workers' compensation "system," but at least 60 systems across the country. That congregation discusses the hot topics of workers' compensation before an audience at the WCI Workers' Compensation Educational Conference.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 17, 2022

Employers whose annual premiums exceed $9,200 in annual premiums need to start paying closer attention to their workers’ compensation policies and safety practices. Under California’s workers’ compensation system rules, starting Sept.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 4, 2022

See Who is the Employer? The bill is of interest in the workers' compensation community because we have a fair number of opportunities to examine the "employer/employee relationship" in the context of various statutory sections. The application of workers' compensation in Florida is dependent upon that employment relationship.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 5, 2023

Verrelli Workers' compensation is a system of insurance that provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees who are injured in the course of their employment. The system is designed to ensure that injured workers receive prompt and fair compensation, regardless of who is at fault for the injury.

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Genesis HR Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

Learn everything you ever need to know about Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) in this free guide. What is workers’ compensation? Workers’ compensation systems were established to provide partial medical care and income protection to employees who are injured or become ill as a result of doing their job.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new rule is expected to have a significant impact on employers. 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.

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The Workcomp Writer

AUGUST 31, 2022

Under the New Mexico statute, it seems that a commuting employee is not within the course and scope of the employment unless her person or car is struck by a co-employee. Finn was involved in a motor vehicle accident while on her way to work for the employer. Tullock , 2022 N.M. LEXIS 46 (Aug. 29, 2022)]. Background. 52-1-9(B)].

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I find these ten notable and foundational to workers' compensation in the 21st century. The injured worker and employer alike have benefitted from workers' compensation, and yet also been burdened. There are perceptions voiced by each as to the challenges and perceptions of these systems. Undoubtedly there are many more.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 26, 2022

a firefighter who was diagnosed with cancer and believed the disease was caused by the employment could only seek benefits from the employer by filing a workers’ compensation claim. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits.

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AssuredPartners

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Workers compensation is a state-level social insurance program that provides financial, medical, and rehabilitation benefits to workers who sustain job-related injuries or illnesses. Employers felt that workers were harmed by poor coordination between different safety, wellness, and benefit programs within employers.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Comparative studies provide stakeholders with context in assessing system performance and policy makers with objective data for decision making. Unfortunately, comparative studies of workers’ compensation system features and outcomes are rare. As with all forms of measurement, comparative analysis is costly and time consuming.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Wearing an employer-designated work uniform shouldn’t result in severe and debilitating occupational exposures. Unfortunately, some American Airlines flight attendants suffered injuries from wearing the flight uniforms prescribed by their employer. The lawsuit that they filed lawsuit resulted in a $1.1 Million award.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 17, 2024

The bill amends current workers’ compensation law to add that a response to an emergency, including work sufficient to cause certain injuries or death, is compensable. In addition, paid, part-paid, or volunteer firefighters and police officers and members of a volunteer first aid or rescue squad are eligible for compensation.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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.) is dynamic and bi-directional.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Exclusive Remedy Workers’ compensation is considered a form of “social insurance” and operates based on a social contract between management and labor. It stipulates that workers’ compensation serves as the “exclusive remedy” for occupational injuries and diseases. of total employment and 87.3%

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 21, 2022

preempts a state workers’ compensation order that compels an employer to reimburse an employee for the cost of marijuana used in response to pain arising from a work-related injury.” The petitioner further argued that Minnesota’s workers’ compensation system does not facilitate access to marijuana. 801 et seq.,

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.” OSC examined the files of ten claimants who collectively filed 300 claims during the course of their state employment.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 24, 2023

The settlement terms are enumerated on a prescribed form and signed by the employee, employer, and judge of compensation after the employee has been fully advised of all rights. The legislative intent of the NJ Workers’ Compensation Act requires that the settlement of workers’ claims is fair and just under all circumstances.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 12, 2019

Regardless of the workers’ compensation insurance arrangement (private insurer, exclusive public state or provincial workers’ compensation board) the healthcare expenditures by workers’ compensation systems are relatively small compared to the total national spending on healthcare. In my view, this would be a mistake.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 31, 2022

preempts a state workers’ compensation order that compels an employer to reimburse an employee for the cost of marijuana used in response to pain arising from a work-related injury.” The petitioner further argues that Minnesota’s workers’ compensation system does not facilitate access to marijuana. 801 et seq.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

The panel at the United States Department of Labor was focused specifically on half of the Grand Bargain, asking " Is the Workers’ Compensation System Serving Injured Workers? ” Law professor Emily Spieler , Northwestern University School of Law was included, as was workers compensation attorney Alan Pierce. Sighinolfi).

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 31, 2022

On May 19, 2020, claimant, a freight delivery driver, applied for workers’ compensation benefits on the basis of a COVID-19 diagnosis. Following an independent medical examination (IME) and hearings, a WCLJ established the claim, finding that claimant had met his burden of establishing that he had contracted COVID-19 through his employment.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

Where short and long term disability (STD and LTD) insurance or social security disability insurance plans (SSDI in the US) are available, they are often accessed before (or instead of) filing a workers’ compensation claim. So, these data may not fully represent what is happening in either country’s workers’ compensation system.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nelson, of Belleville, IL There is significant geographic and practical breadth here with these speakers coming from very different workers' compensation systems and hopefully I will add a national perspective. Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 10, 2018

Every workers’ compensation system provides certain payments in the event of a work-related death of a worker. The expectation that workers’ compensation insurance will cover the full cost of a funeral and burial of an injured worker, however, is not the reality in all jurisdictions. but no statutory maximum.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 26, 2022

a firefighter who was diagnosed with cancer and believed the disease was caused by the employment could only seek benefits from the employer by filing a workers’ compensation claim. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION REMEDY Some state workers’ compensation acts, including New Jersey, recognize radiation exposure as an occupational disease and afford injured workers and their dependents a remedy. Timely notice and the workers’ compensation claim filing must be satisfied under statutory requirements. 350 N.J.Super.

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The Workcomp Writer

MAY 24, 2022

Following independent medical examinations and the depositions of various providers, the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier raised the issue of a N.Y. Claimant further testified that he did not think that he needed to mention the prior injuries or awards because they were already in the workers’ compensation system.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Department of Labor is responsible for managing the federal workforce’s workers’ compensation system through its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. The new program, which could become a model for successful addiction prevention, went into effect in September. Limited-time prescriptions.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 8, 2023

The Court noted that the failures had resulted in delay for the injured worker and employer to have their day in hearing with the JCC. It concluded that when doctors treat workers' compensation patients, they "owe() that patient a duty of reasonable cooperation within that system and compliance with its orders."

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

Extracting provincial data from the same series, British Columbia has seen a massive shift in the employment of workers age 65 and older: The monthly unadjusted BC employment rate of 65- to 69-year-olds now routinely exceeds 35% More than a third of males (36.2% of males aged 65 to 69 are employed (Q1 2022) vs. 29.5% in (Q1 2002).

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

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? There may be some integration or offset of workers’ compensation in certain cases.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

The Court acknowledged that under the state’s statutory scheme it was difficult, although not impossible, to establish a causal connection between the employment and the virus. Judge Great noted that there had only been three reported decisions addressing the compensability of COVID-19, and that the holdings were mixed: Fowler v.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Workplaces are now primed for a massive wave of compensation claims due to the Omicron variant. A recent study provides a potential opportunity for employers and insurance companies to reduce their risk exposure through early sequencing and treatment proactively. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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HR Bartender

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Most employers, knowing they almost always have some health-related information on their employees gathered from things such as workers’ compensation claims, fringe benefit administration, and administration of leave and absenteeism policies should be rightfully concerned about their compliance with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule.

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Achievers

MAY 17, 2018

After several evolutionary waves, we have a deeper insight into what truly motivates people, and today’s incentives are about far more than compensation. Furthermore, as the IRF puts it, standard compensation systems that rewarded people for just showing up and completing their baseline tasks are no longer enough. “To

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