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Is the Workers' Compensation System Prepared for Omicron (Updated 12/10/21)

Workers' Compensation

As this holiday season approaches, employers, insurance companies, and employees will be facing what may be the biggest COVID challenges of the year. Medical delivery in most industrialized countries operates under a single-payer or unified system. Work has changed dramatically to remote and non-industrial in many instances.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The “Unknown” occupational disease risk in workers’ compensation When workers’ compensation systems started a century ago, the focus was “industrial accidents”. page U47] Over time, most workers’ compensation systems adapted to include coverage for occupational diseases. This limitation was noted at the time.

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State of New Jersey Failed to Address Deficiencies in $96 Million Workers’ Compensation Program

Workers' Compensation

“The Division didn’t follow through on most of what it said it would do,” said Kevin Walsh, Acting State Comptroller. As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.”

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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

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.

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Workers Compensation and Occupational Safety and Health Challenges

AssuredPartners

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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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Florida Workers' Comp

The report has been criticized as coming from the perspective perhaps of too many academics, only large employers (2), lawyers (45% of Commissioners), and the usual higher learning institutions. Some have criticized that no service sector or professional employers were involved. WalMart was just a decade old in 1972, with 51 stores.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

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