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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workerscompensation model (private insurance, competitive state fund, exclusive state fund), every insurer has to prepare for the unexpected. As noted in my last post, the COVID-19 event most certainly is a rare event and just as assuredly will result in accepted workerscompensation claims.

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Does workers’ compensation cover the full cost of a funeral for a work-related death?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Every workerscompensation system provides certain payments in the event of a work-related death of a worker. The expectation that workerscompensation 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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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

I’ve received a lot of questions recently on workerscompensation 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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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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

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The 1972 Commission Report re 1935

Florida Workers' Comp

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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Can a worker claim workers’ compensation for COVID-19 exposure, illness or quarantine?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers with permanent disabilities often don’t have those options. The monthly workerscompensation 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 workerscompensation income decline with each passing year.