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What is Workers' Compensation Self-insurance?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Legislation Determines the Mandate, Rules, and Arrangements Legislation in the United States, Canada, and Australia defines the mandate of workers’ compensation at both the state/provincial and federal levels. This includes coverage extent, benefit definitions, dispute resolution rules, and more. Self Insured : 24.7% Self Insured : 24.7%

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The cost of these coverages may be shared with the employees (with worker contributions deducted from the wages or salary) but are otherwise a form of earnings, providing value that a worker might otherwise have to purchase. What’s Reportable as Payroll for Workers’ Compensation? This is generally not the case.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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? A more obvious issues relates to the definition of any “initial period” of TTD.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The full claim cost under these types of insurance agreement develop quickly and definitively. Not necessarily so for workers’ compensation insurance. The true, full cost of the claim will develop over time and known definitively once the claim is concluded or "finalled". The insurer makes the payment and the claim is closed.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Private funding includes out-of-pocket healthcare spending by individuals on medical supplies and services, co-pays or deductibles. Using data from a number of sources, workers’ compensation spending on healthcare accounts for approximately 1% to 2% of total national healthcare spending in the US, Canada and Australia.