Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As this holiday season approaches, employers, insurance companies, and employees will be facing what may be the biggest COVID challenges of the year. The insurance program has been left to absorb the impacts that have been generated complacency, hesitancy, and a fractured political landscape. Reinfection is at least 2.5

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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. Source: 1918 Annual report ibid.,

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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. Here is a brief recap of our discussion so far.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Workplaces are now primed for a massive wave of compensation claims due to the Omicron variant. A recent study provides a potential opportunity for employers and insurance companies to reduce their risk exposure through early sequencing and treatment proactively. In re Accutane Litigation, 234 N.J. 340, 191 A.3d 3d 560, Prod.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

Requiring employers provide financial compensation to workers or their families for work-related injury, illness and death is central to achieving this objective. The market for workers’ compensation insurance is far from a free market place. There is no one “right way” or “best” insurance arrangement.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 15, 2022

There was no Americans with Disabilities Act, no Family Medical Leave Act, and even the ground-breaking Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not even a decade old. First, the National Commission was enabled by the same law that created OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

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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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