The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 28, 2022

In 2016, the employer requested review of Sheppard’s ongoing health care treatment and service for medications prescribed by Dr. Eva Dickinson. As a result of the decision, the employer and its carrier had no further liability to Dr. Dickinson or her medical practice for those medical expenses that had been the subject of the UR decision.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 30, 2022

An employee may have dual employers but ultimately can only receive a single recovery from only one employer for work-related injuries. 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.

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JGA Recruitment

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Instead of treating the symptoms, companies must treat the disease by zeroing in on the fundamental causes of pay disparities and designing compensation systems that are built on fairness and equality. Regular pay reviews are crucial, but they’re just the beginning. The business case for equality is clear.

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HR Bartender

AUGUST 10, 2017

A minority of companies use actual factor-based compensation systems – which establish the value of a job by rating it against ‘compensable factors’. It reminds me of a Compensation Café post I wrote a few years ago about Kodak. If an employee has questions about their compensation, how can they ask human resources?

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 17, 2022

Employers whose annual premiums exceed $9,200 in annual premiums need to start paying closer attention to their workers’ compensation policies and safety practices. Under California’s workers’ compensation system rules, starting Sept.

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Insurance Compensation System Medical Employment 98

Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The effects of a government shutdown on state workers' compensation systems and their integration with Social Security will vary depending on the specific circumstances of each state. Workers' compensation insurance Premiums paid by employers fund workers' compensation systems.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Due to the quota-based performance measures that follow the work of sales representatives, employers often prefer to provide sales incentive plans to motivate them to perform better. Sometimes these are given as additional bonuses for good performance, while other times these are tied into entire salary compensation plans.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 23, 2022

The world of workers' compensation is geographic and diverse. There is no workers' compensation "system," but at least 60 systems across the country. That congregation discusses the hot topics of workers' compensation before an audience at the WCI Workers' Compensation Educational Conference.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 10, 2024

An active hurricane season can significantly impact the workers' compensation system in terms of claims and losses. Geographic considerations: Coastal areas and regions more prone to hurricane impacts will likely see greater effects on their workers' compensation systems. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 4, 2022

See Who is the Employer? The bill is of interest in the workers' compensation community because we have a fair number of opportunities to examine the "employer/employee relationship" in the context of various statutory sections. The application of workers' compensation in Florida is dependent upon that employment relationship.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 12, 2022

The workers’ compensation system works because there is certainty in the amount and type of benefits available. The lack of an authorized treatment for long COVID disrupts that model and leaves employees, employers, and insurance companies with an unpredictable future. On the promising side. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 29, 2024

The fact of being “hired” by a person or entity to perform labor is not dispositive as regards the implications of worker’s compensation. This social safety net is about "employers" and "employees," not "hirers" and "hirees." I use the phrase "employer/employee" specifically. I cite the implications specifically.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nelson, of Belleville, IL There is significant geographic and practical breadth here with these speakers coming from very different workers' compensation systems and hopefully I will add a national perspective. Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 26, 2022

a firefighter who was diagnosed with cancer and believed the disease was caused by the employment could only seek benefits from the employer by filing a workers’ compensation claim. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 19, 2022

The workers’ compensation system nationally has been challenged over the last two plus years of the COVID Pandemic. The multi-state administered workers’ compensation program is based on a litigious patchwork of state programs with varying degrees of eligibility, procedures, and benefits.

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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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The Workcomp Writer

JULY 26, 2024

This constitutional provision gives the Legislature “plenary power, unlimited by any provision of this Constitution” to create a workers’ compensation system. In a 25-page opinion authored by Justice Liu, with all justices concurring, the Court held that section 7451 does not conflict with Article XIV, Section 4.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Implications for the Industry: The NCCI's study highlights the substantial financial impact of mega claims on the workers' compensation system. Employers: Awareness of the factors contributing to mega claims can help employers implement proactive safety measures to reduce the likelihood of such incidents.

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The Workcomp Writer

AUGUST 31, 2022

Under the New Mexico statute, it seems that a commuting employee is not within the course and scope of the employment unless her person or car is struck by a co-employee. Finn was involved in a motor vehicle accident while on her way to work for the employer. Tullock , 2022 N.M. LEXIS 46 (Aug. 29, 2022)]. Background. 52-1-9(B)].

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HR Bartender

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Fortunately, I worked for an employer that was open to modified duty. It sounds like this employer is as well. The term modified duty is generally exclusive to workers’ compensation but can also be used when accommodating an employee under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA.). My recovery took years.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 5, 2023

Verrelli Workers' compensation is a system of insurance that provides wage replacement and medical benefits to employees who are injured in the course of their employment. The system is designed to ensure that injured workers receive prompt and fair compensation, regardless of who is at fault for the injury.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 21, 2022

preempts a state workers’ compensation order that compels an employer to reimburse an employee for the cost of marijuana used in response to pain arising from a work-related injury.” The petitioner further argued that Minnesota’s workers’ compensation system does not facilitate access to marijuana. 801 et seq.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There is both evolution and revolution in the world of workers' compensation: regulatorily, statutorily, adjudicatory, and more. The interrelationship of employment, which is the very fabric of workers' compensation, has changed. He encouraged and inspired conversation about this community, injured workers, and employers.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new rule is expected to have a significant impact on employers. Despite the long legacy of severe and fatal claims, including lung cancer and mesothelioma, brought within the workers’ compensation system, the substance is still being used in products, and exposure continues from asbestos already in place in occupational settings.

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Genesis HR Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

Learn everything you ever need to know about Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) in this free guide. What is workers’ compensation? Workers’ compensation systems were established to provide partial medical care and income protection to employees who are injured or become ill as a result of doing their job.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Comparative studies provide stakeholders with context in assessing system performance and policy makers with objective data for decision making. Unfortunately, comparative studies of workers’ compensation system features and outcomes are rare. As with all forms of measurement, comparative analysis is costly and time consuming.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 31, 2022

preempts a state workers’ compensation order that compels an employer to reimburse an employee for the cost of marijuana used in response to pain arising from a work-related injury.” The petitioner further argues that Minnesota’s workers’ compensation system does not facilitate access to marijuana. 801 et seq.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 8, 2023

The Court noted that the failures had resulted in delay for the injured worker and employer to have their day in hearing with the JCC. It concluded that when doctors treat workers' compensation patients, they "owe() that patient a duty of reasonable cooperation within that system and compliance with its orders."

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 25, 2024

In those rulings, the Commission and the Court of Appeals had found that the costs of a claimant’s bariatric surgery should be borne by the employer because the claimant needed to lose weight to undergo surgery to repair hardware in her knee that had loosened due to two work-related injuries. 124, 468 S.E.2d

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Commissions Workers’ Compensation Medical Compensation System 40

Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 28, 2022

I have heard from lawyers for years regarding their perceptions of the Florida workers' compensation system, and those who run it. Their many thoughts and the promise of constructive feedback led to the implementation of the annual joint survey implemented by the OJCC and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section.

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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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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Wearing an employer-designated work uniform shouldn’t result in severe and debilitating occupational exposures. Unfortunately, some American Airlines flight attendants suffered injuries from wearing the flight uniforms prescribed by their employer. The lawsuit that they filed lawsuit resulted in a $1.1 Million award.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

OCTOBER 23, 2023

AI will not change the functions of any disability insurance or workers’ compensation systems. The impact at the interface between the organization and those it serves (stakeholders, injured workers, employers, advocates, etc.) is dynamic and bi-directional.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.” OSC examined the files of ten claimants who collectively filed 300 claims during the course of their state employment.

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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? There may be some integration or offset of workers’ compensation in certain cases.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 24, 2023

The settlement terms are enumerated on a prescribed form and signed by the employee, employer, and judge of compensation after the employee has been fully advised of all rights. The legislative intent of the NJ Workers’ Compensation Act requires that the settlement of workers’ claims is fair and just under all circumstances.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

.); "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. Wages and salaries cost employers $25.22

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