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Are Workers’ Comp Insurers ready for what comes next in the COVID-19 crisis?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Rapid, accurate and consistent decisions will depend on the degree of agility workers’ compensation systems can achieve on these potentially complex cases and constrained operating environments. As the number of COVID-19 cases rise, the potential for delay in claim decision-making will rise.

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Throwback Thursday: Booker v. Duke Medical Center (1979)

The Workcomp Writer

The case began its journey through the states workers compensation system: first to Deputy Commissioner Stephenson, who, after a hearing on September 10, 1975, found the claim compensable and awarded benefits. When is a common disease sufficiently connected to work to warrant compensation? LEXIS 5308 (3d Dept.,

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