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.
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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Workers' Compensation Perspectives
MARCH 12, 2019
Private funding includes out-of-pocket healthcare spending by individuals on medical supplies and services, co-pays or deductibles. The healthcare of military vets, grants for medical research and public medical insurance typically fall into the public spending category. In my view, this would be a mistake.
The Workcomp Writer
APRIL 3, 2023
From July 27, 2020, to July 31, 2020, among other things, Foster administered COVID-19 tests to inmates and staff in the medical unit of Southern Regional Jail. On August 4, 2020, Foster submitted to a COVID-19 test at a regional hospital. Foster was hospitalized from August 11, 2020, to August 24, 2020, due to pneumonia.
The Workcomp Writer
DECEMBER 31, 2022
The employer and carrier controverted the claim, contending, in pertinent part, that COVID-19 was not a covered accident within New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law and that the alleged injury did not occur in the course of claimant’s employment. The facility was set to reopen on April 10, 2020, following sanitization.
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
JUNE 2, 2024
Patton encountered Private Charles Kuhl in the 15th Evacuation Field Hospital at Nicosia (Sicily). A few days later at an evacuation hospital in San Stephano, the general encountered Pvt. Other coding systems for nature of injury, industry and occupation are jurisdictionally specific and subject to change over time.
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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