Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 12, 2019

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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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 4, 2024

The apparent rise in mental disability claims is a significant issue for disability insurers and workers’ compensation systems. The observed rise in workers’ compensation claims for mental injury must be interpreted in context. Data for 2018 is as of January 31, 2019. Data for 2017 is as of November 30, 2018.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

In the accompanying slides and in some responses, I provide additional references as a starting point for understanding and comparing initial workers’ compensation. All workers’ compensation systems pay the same rate for lost wages…right? I could find only one jurisdiction with no maximum on insured earnings: Manitoba.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Not all components of employer costs for a worker attract a premium but most workers’ compensation system defined which components are considered “reportable” or “assessable” payroll. For the purpose of this discussion, these rating provisions are not critical. What is critical is how “payroll” figures into the process.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2024

Other coding systems for nature of injury, industry and occupation are jurisdictionally specific and subject to change over time. Workers’ compensation systems rely on a medical diagnosis of the injury , then determine the " work-relatedness " of that injury before considering the extent and duration of any compensation.

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Empuls

JUNE 21, 2024

  Contributed to the Allstate Plan specifically was $103 million, $93 million, and $89 million in 2020, 2019, and 2018, respectively.   Allowed their participants to contribute $14 million and $15 million in 2020 and 2019, respectively.  Their belief is to offer handsome benefits throughout their career and into retirement.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the spring of 2018, I penned a piece regarding the Forum. In 2018 Forum Recap and Professionalism (April 2018) ; 2015 Frierson-Colling Professionalism Award (2015), I had the chance to discuss professionalism and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section's efforts to recognize it in their members.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I recently ran across a fantastic retrospective published in 2018 by Time, " The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now. " And yet, these state systems have been largely successful in socializing the risk and cost of production and service in the incredibly complex and significant American economy.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Many remember Ready Player One (Warner Brothers 2018), a Spielberg expose on a dystopian brave new world. Other state's workers' compensation systems "figured out" how to accept electronic documents as evidence. And this is available right now. Lawyers in other states "learned" how to try a case by video.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JANUARY 1, 2019

To forestall this eventuality, the majority of North American workers’ compensation jurisdictions adjust periodic payments (sometimes called workers’ compensation pensions or permanent disability payments) to account for increases in the cost of living. That increase was effective July 1, 2018. per cent beginning on January 1.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

The panel at the United States Department of Labor was focused specifically on half of the Grand Bargain, asking " Is the Workers’ Compensation System Serving Injured Workers? ” Law professor Emily Spieler , Northwestern University School of Law was included, as was workers compensation attorney Alan Pierce.

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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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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

For this reason, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI.org) advises the following in its reports on Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs and Coverage (October 2018 ) [page 41]: The reader is cautioned that the ratios represent benefits and costs paid in a given year, but not necessarily for the same claims. WC-19-22; U.S.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

Workers in some sectors such as agriculture and small businesses may not be covered in all states (see NASI, Workers’ Compensation: Benefits, Costs and Coverage, 2018 Table A.1, 1, columns (3) and (4)). There are other exceptions, exemptions and “carve outs” in various jurisdictions.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 12, 2024

97-44 (2018). As we note in Larson, the excessive and indiscriminate use of the lump-summing device has reached a point in some jurisdictions that it threatens to undermine the real purpose of the workers’ compensation system. Within the workers’ compensation context, the issues are more complex and nuanced.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

LLC , 2018 ME 77, 187 A.3d 3d 10 (2018)—discussed below under Maine—the insurer could not be ordered to reimburse Panaggio for his marijuana. 2018), preempts a state order requiring reimbursement of an employee’s purchase of medical marijuana. In May 2018, she certified claimant for use of medical marijuana pursuant to N.Y.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Similarly, the Florida workers' compensation system has experienced various efforts over the last century to limit or define attorney's fees, and to focus judicial discretion. Similarly, National Public Radio reported in 2018 regarding a case of sexual assault, and a recall effort regarding the judge. Haymond , 530 U.S.

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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. Dueling “experts” will leave workers’ compensation hearing officials with conflicting evidence to establish adjudicate claims. CCH) P 20407 (2018).

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