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WCI 2024 is Upon Us

Florida Workers' Comp

The institute is a cross-section of every interest group in the workers' compensation system. Profits from the conference are used to enhance the workers' compensation system. Initially, the institute provided a series of "grants" to assist the system. The medical courses will continue on a permanent basis.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Earlier this year, Chevron announced a $5 million grant to Catalyst, a global nonprofit advancing workplace gender equality, in support of expanding the MARC program, which Chevron adopted in 2016. Our compensation systems are designed to minimize risk of bias based on race and gender and we’re confident they’re sound.

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What Would David Say?

Florida Workers' Comp

In July 2016, workers' compensation lost a leader in David DePaolo, see We've Lost a Leader (July 2016). In either, we have a population of workers that are not being covered by the workers' compensation system and its protections. And, there we will both honor and learn. The import is not really different.

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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workers’ compensation insurance arrangement (private insurer, exclusive public state or provincial workers’ compensation board) the healthcare expenditures by workers’ compensation systems are relatively small compared to the total national spending on healthcare. In my view, this would be a mistake.

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Delaware Employer Need Not Pay for Claimant’s Opioids More than 9 Years After Accident

The Workcomp Writer

In 2016, the employer requested review of Sheppard’s ongoing health care treatment and service for medications prescribed by Dr. Eva Dickinson. Grady was also a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system. Grady disagreed with Brokaw’s assessment that Sheppard was uncooperative.

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Dual Employment Status Bars Double Recovery

Workers' Compensation

The “exclusivity doctrine,” permitting a complete recovery of damages against an employer, limits an injured worker’s benefit recovery to the compensation system, barring an intentional tort. In August 2016, the worker slipped and fell on a pre-manufactured six-and-a-half-foot metal ramp that descended from the loading dock.

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State of New Jersey Failed to Address Deficiencies in $96 Million Workers’ Compensation Program

Workers' Compensation

OSC’s 2020 audit found that six claimants collectively filed 266 claims between 1978 and 2016. As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.” In 23 percent of those claims surveyed, no follow-up action, such as safety officer interviews, was taken.