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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

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. There is currently a national shortage of rapid tests, long lines at state-established testing sites, and a soaring rate of hospitalizations.

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The Long Legacy of COVID-19 Disability

Workers' Compensation

The limited resources of state-based workers’ compensation systems are too fiscally restrictive to embrace the long-term treatment and disability benefits that will emerge from successive infectious disease outbreaks. Federal efforts are expanding to provide necessary research and treatment protocol resources.

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Are Workers’ Comp Insurers ready for what comes next in the COVID-19 crisis?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Rapid, accurate and consistent decisions will depend on the degree of agility workers’ compensation systems can achieve on these potentially complex cases and constrained operating environments. An order by public health or a physician for quarantine or hospitalization as a result of contact tracing is significant evidence.