Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 23, 2020

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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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

“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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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Background The workers’ compensation system faces an enormous challenge in 2022 as the novel consequences of the most recent surge of SARS-CoV-2 infection engulf the nation. The issues will include: evaluating temporary disability benefits, delivering medical treatment, and estimating the nature and extent of disability.

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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. Claim Administration System complexity is a drag on performance. How Can Workers Compensation Systems Promote Occupational Safety and Health?

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 15, 2022

There was no Americans with Disabilities Act, no Family Medical Leave Act, and even the ground-breaking Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not even a decade old. First, the National Commission was enabled by the same law that created OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

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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. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

For workers’ compensation insurers, there are additional complications in their day-to-day operations. The medical and rehabilitation services often provided by workers’ compensation typically are very “hands on”. The degree to which this challenge may impact particular insurers remains to be seen but the risk is real.

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