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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

The issues will include: evaluating temporary disability benefits, delivering medical treatment, and estimating the nature and extent of disability. Multiple lawyers of pandemic preparedness precautions in the workplace, including making, social distancing, and ventilation, will reduce the overall risk of severe disease and hospitalization.

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COVID litigation, lessons for businesses from the courtroom

Business Management Daily

From risk to exposure and wrongful death claims to leave denial, the ADA, retaliation cases, and more, businesses find themselves in tricky legal situations. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) created a workplace exposure presumption. Some family members are filing state wrongful death lawsuits against employers if a worker dies.

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How Does an Employee Benefits Survey Help a Company Grow?

Vantage Circle

Benefits include health insurance, retirement plans, flexible work arrangements, professional development stipends, and other offerings to support well-being and life outside work. In simple terms, employee benefits survey acts as a pulse survey, gauging satisfaction and needs swiftly. Let’s take a quick glimpse at them.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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.