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Mental Injuries- Part 3: Implications for Disability Insurers and Workers’ Compensation

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Even if workers’ compensation fully covered all work-related cases, workers suffering work-related mental injuries must still bear the burden of the harm, and with their families, carry some of the financial loss. Disallowed claims are those that do not meet the requirements of section 135 of the Workers Compensation Act.

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Issue Commentary: Is Firing Retaliatory Where Injury Prevents Return to Work?

The Workcomp Writer

Even if the injury was due in part, or in toto, to the fault of the employee, fault is not supposed to be an issue within the workers’ compensation scheme of providing medical care and indemnity payments to claimant’s whose injuries (or illness) arose out of and in the course of the employment. LEXIS 10327 (2nd Cir. Wellington Sears Co. ,

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The significance of women’s health is increasingly acknowledged in the modern workplace

Workplace Insight

has seen a doubling of maternal mortality rates from 2002 to 2018, with a significant racial disparity affecting Black women. For example, Amazon’s fertility and family-building benefit is available to all benefits-eligible employees regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, or relationship status.