HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. The Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of August 2023 found that employers are planning a 3.9

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Achievers

MAY 17, 2018

Ever since people started working for each other, supervisors have tried to figure out the best way to reach their performance goals and keep workers on task. After several evolutionary waves, we have a deeper insight into what truly motivates people, and today’s incentives are about far more than compensation.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Workers’ compensation “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 workers’ compensation statutes.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 18, 2024

We rapidly approach the 78th annual rendition of the Workers Compensation Institute. The Florida Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1995. Beginning in the 1960s, the conference was run by the state Division of Workers’ Compensation. Stevens, 145 Fla. 209, 198 So.

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HR Bartender

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Most employers, knowing they almost always have some health-related information on their employees gathered from things such as workers’ compensation claims, fringe benefit administration, and administration of leave and absenteeism policies should be rightfully concerned about their compliance with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule.

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Genesis HR Solutions

MARCH 22, 2023

One of the first things you ask them for is proof of insurance, in case a worker becomes injured on your property. In this article, we’ll shed light on the topic of PEO workers’ comp and provide a refresher about PEO services as well. What is workers’ compensation? Larger employers may also have the option to self-insure.

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The Workcomp Writer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The court reviewed the state’s so-called Seagroves test, which holds that, under appropriate circumstances, an employee’s termination for misconduct may constitute a constructive refusal of suitable employment on the part of the former employee, such that he or she is also disqualified from receiving temporary total disability benefits.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 12, 2019

I’ve received a lot of questions recently on workers’ compensation 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 Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2024

Last time, we outlined the growth in mental disorder/psychological injury claims in workers' compensation and related workplace insurance programs. For workers’ compensation, growing recognition of the work-relatedness of mental injuries requires changes to legislation and policy allowing for compensation.

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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.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Comparing system features and worker outcomes in workers’ compensation is an attractive concept. Knowing where your workers’ compensation ranks in terms of costs, benefits and outcomes is essential to any benchmarking exercise. A great example of a well-done interjurisdictional comparison come from Oregon.

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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. How it affects your premium.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many students I encounter assume that workers’ compensation 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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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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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It limits the total number of pills workers’ comp recipients may receive and the length of time they can be prescribed. Department of Labor is responsible for managing the federal workforce’s workers’ compensation system through its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. Limited-time prescriptions.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The recent Australian Association of Rehabilitation Providers (ARPA) Roundtable meeting in Perth provided an opportunity to speak on how AI is and will impact workers’ compensation. AI will not change the functions of any disability insurance or workers’ compensation systems. is dynamic and bi-directional.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 17, 2024

Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia filed the legislation to institute additional workers' compensation supplemental benefits on June 13, 2024, and Assemblyman Inganamort co-sponsored it. Benefit amount is reduced by some Social Security benefits and employer disability pensions. Annual COLA adjustments begin July 1, 2025.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2020

[The following is a general response to questions from students in workers’ compensation, disability management, and workplace insurance courses. While prevention, control, and treatment questions top the list, workers’ compensation questions are being raised. The law and policy will vary by specific jurisdiction].

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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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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

The apparent rise in mental injuries First responders are not the only workers at risk of mental or psychological injuries. Many workers’ compensation jurisdictions and work-disability insurers have noted increasing mental disorder (also called psychological injury, mental injury) claims over time.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

For more than twenty years I have been speaking about demographic change to workers’ compensation insurers in the hopes of spurring policy changes in advance of an aging workforce and greater numbers of older workers in the workplace. Workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety are not keeping pace.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

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 workers’ compensation issues. California) to seven days (e.g.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This annual tradition has come to have special meaning for the workers' compensation attorney community because of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers (CWCL). Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging. There are many causes and contributors.

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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. Handwringing over costs often misses this underlying premise.

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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. Modern workers need room to breathe. Regular pay reviews are crucial, but they’re just the beginning.

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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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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

A report released today by the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) finds that the agency that manages workers’ compensation claims filed by state employees failed to remedy deficiencies identified three years ago. As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.”

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

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.

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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 Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

[For the first part of this discussion, see “Workers’ Compensation 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 workers’ compensation insurance market.

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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. Characterizing workers as independent contractors has persistently been one of these.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JANUARY 1, 2019

Workers with permanent disabilities often don’t have those options. The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In this little corner of the world that is workers' compensation, are there events that merit retention and attention as those that "matter right now?" There would be perhaps unanimous agreement as to a few: Wisconsin's passage of the first successful workers' compensation law (1911). I would suggest there are several.

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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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Workers' Compensation

JULY 10, 2024

An active hurricane season can significantly impact the workers' compensation system in terms of claims and losses. Construction and utility workers face higher risks during the rebuilding phases. Premium impacts: Increased losses may lead to higher workers' compensation premiums in affected areas in subsequent years.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Workers’ compensation is designed to provide income replacement and coverage of medical expenses for employees who are injured on the job. If the injury is related to the employment, it does not matter who caused the injury; the employee is awarded benefits. How do workers’ compensation laws work?

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

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). However, society has moved on and "workers" today is more more acceptable; our workplaces are more diverse, vibrant, and inclusive.

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