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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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 29, 2022

The admissibility of scientific evidence has perennially been a controversial issue in workers’ compensation hearings. State Requirements New Jersey follows a guideline for the admission and reliance upon scientific evidence in occupational disease workers' compensation cases. City of Jersey City Fire Dept., 244, 814 A.2d

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 27, 2023

Whether you work as a Case Manager for workers’ compensation system, a client services representative for a transport-accident personal-injury insurance, a claims administrator for a non-occupational disability insurance plan, or a return-to-work specialist for a third-party administrator, you will face the disability insurance “trust gap”.

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Workers' Compensation

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This standard would reduce occupational exposure to SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, influenza viruses, and other pathogens that cause major personal and economic damage yearly and impact the workers' compensation system. Live Updates …. Preparing for the Next Epidemic of Occupational Disease , www.

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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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Vantage Circle

JULY 13, 2021

For example, employers might allow flexible scheduling, so employees can pick up their children from school or attend special events. Your employees deserve a reward system based on their needs rather than what you think is best for them. Meaningful rewards create a sense of trust amongst workers. Centralized Administration.

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Global People Strategist

JANUARY 7, 2023

However, workers’ compensation in this country is far more than just a novelty; it’s essential for protecting the rights and well-being of hundreds of millions of Chinese workers. Let’s take a closer look at how these strategies combine to provide financial coverage and emotional assistance in tough times!

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 23, 2020

Regardless of the workers’ compensation model (private insurance, competitive state fund, exclusive state fund), every insurer has to prepare for the unexpected. Afterall, insurance is the transfers the financial risk of rare but costly events from the insured to the insurer. This limitation was noted at the time.

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

History are addressed), and constricted (only 25 events). Despite that, a fair few notable events were left off the list. It is all around us, in events both big and small. The viewpoints of those invited to contribute illustrate a vast array of both events and chronology. I might suggest Brown v. Yet, I digress.

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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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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The potential for workplace safety liability is a near constant in discussions of workers' compensation. It involves a workers' compensation claim that is instructive in its various potential points of discussion. Mitchell's only recourse if any, should be through the New Mexico workers' compensation system.

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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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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

AUGUST 15, 2022

A major disrupters in the workers’ compensation system is hurricanes. Now is the time to prepare for such events. Workplaces may be severely impacted by these major weather events. The 2022 Season is still predicted to be an abnormally high season.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Heartiest congratulations to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as it celebrates 100 years of service to the workers’ compensation system. Our” system has seen substantial changes over the years and NCCI has deftly adapted along with it. The winnowing was not easy. Minneapolis St. 315, 41 N.W.2d

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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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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 15, 2022

This week, the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) hosts its 38th Annual Issues and Research Conference in Boston. In all, a well-rounded program with something for all of the workers' compensation community. I have studied workers' compensation for decades and would find such an undertaking monumental.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

[Supplemental background for students of DMCCJ – Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work and DMCCL- Insurance and Other Benefits – Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences] Workers’ compensation insurers and legislators are taking the first steps in dealing with the COVID-19 crises.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

COVID is the most extensive occupational exposure event in the history of the United States. Workplaces are now primed for a massive wave of compensation claims due to the Omicron variant. The duration of this extraordinary event will be further complicated by the lifetime consequences of “Long COVID.” 340, 191 A.3d

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 10, 2025

The facts surrounding Hawks death presented the Iowa Supreme Court with a classic opportunity to reconsider a well-established but increasingly problematic doctrine in workers compensation lawthe unusual and rash act doctrine, which had persisted in Iowa jurisprudence since 1922. Hauff Brothers , 193 Iowa 1084, 188 N.W. 2d 40, 112 P.2d

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