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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workerscompensation model (private insurance, competitive state fund, exclusive state fund), every insurer has to prepare for the unexpected. As noted in my last post, the COVID-19 event most certainly is a rare event and just as assuredly will result in accepted workerscompensation claims.

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What is Workers' Compensation Self-insurance?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Many students I encounter assume that workerscompensation is simply another variant of traditional insurance. The Public Policy Objective Most developed economies have systems of social protection that offer cash benefits in case of work-related injuries. A brief history of workers' compensation. Iowa Orthop J.

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Top Ten Priorities for Workers’ Compensation Benefit Reforms

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workerscompensation “reforms” are typically focused on reducing employer costs. Enacted reforms often result in restrictions that limit rather than enhance benefits to workers. Sadly, even the minimum levels recommended by that report are often missing from current workerscompensation statutes.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

I’ve received a lot of questions recently on workerscompensation healthcare spending in Canada, the US and other countries. These questions appear have arisen as several US states and political analysts have proposed consideration of “single payer” healthcare systems for their jurisdictions. See figure at top of this post.]

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

.); "total amount paid to employees over a period," hence, via records-keeping, "list of employees receiving pay." [ See [link] ] Today, the word “payroll” more often than not refers to the department or system that manage employer costs for a range of employee compensation components. More on that in a future post.

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Temporary Total Disability for Work injury: What will Workers’ Compensation pay?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Work-related injury not only physical and mental pain, but any resulting disability also raises immediate questions Injured workers and family members often turn to their human resource (HR) and disability management (DM) professionals to provide guidance on workerscompensation issues. California) to seven days (e.g.,

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Workers’ compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 2

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

[For the first part of this discussion, see “WorkersCompensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1” at [link] or [link] ] In my previous post, I described the range of public policy insurance arrangements governments use in the workerscompensation insurance market.