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What's Hot in Workers' Comp 2022?

Florida Workers' Comp

The world of workers' compensation is geographic and diverse. There is no workers' compensation "system," but at least 60 systems across the country. Some are managed by a director, other by a board or commission (a critic or two complains that some seem not to be managed at all). But, we dare not tarry.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Public spending refers to spending from governments and public agencies. Workers’ compensation spending on healthcare may be in either category or both depending on the jurisdiction. It may be tempting to dismiss workers’ compensation healthcare spending as a rounding error in terms of the national healthcare spending.

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“Clawback Comeback”: DOJ’s New Focus on Clawbacks to Prevent Corporate Crime

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

With this focus on executive compensation clawbacks, the DOJ is stepping into an area first highlighted by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which directed the Securities and Exchange Commission to promulgate rules requiring publicly-listed companies to have compensation clawback policies.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

while benefit costs were $11.55… Note, in this context, “civilian” workers include those employed in the private nonfarm economy (except those in private households) and workers in the public sector (except the federal government). What’s Reportable as Payroll for Workers’ Compensation? Wages and salaries cost employers $25.22

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The 1972 Commission Report re 1935

Florida Workers' Comp

In March 2022, I was honored to speak (briefly) at the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) conference in Boston, see Friends, Romans, countrymen, lendme your ears (March 2022). The panel included Professor John Burton , an emeritus professor at Rutgers University and the Chair of the 1972 Commission. Youngs , 163 Neb.

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Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Occupational Exposure to Cellphone Radiation

Workers' Compensation

Last week, the French government requested that Apple stop selling the iPhone 12 model because of excessive radiation detected during recent tests. International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF). The court reasoned that the Communications Act of 1934 pre-empted state and local regulations.

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

For more than a century, governments have pursued a social policy objective: to protect workers from work-related injury, disability, illness and death in a compassionate and sustainable way that still allows the economic activity and innovation necessary for societies to operate and thrive. Government interventions alter the market.