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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Payroll” used to have a simple meaning. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary: payroll (n.) For workers’ compensation, payroll can have different meanings depending on your jurisdiction and whether you are a worker or an employer. or 1.25% of total employer cost of employee compensation [$36.77].

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Workers’ compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 2

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The private category also had the lowest worker paid benefit per $100 payroll and the lowest employer cost per $100 payroll. Some background on workers’ compensation insurance finance Workers’ compensation insurance has both similarities and differences with other insurance lines.

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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. A special concern: Mental Injuries Workers’ compensation systems routinely accept psychological impacts as a result of injury.