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What Industrial Categories Are Workers at Excess Risk of Filing a COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claim? A Study Conducted in 11 Midwestern US States

Dan L. Hunt, Edward J. Bernacki, Larry Yuspeh, Leila Williams, Nicholas F. Tsourmas, Nimisha Kalia, Nina Leung, Robert A. Lavin, Xuguang (Grant) Tao | May, 2021

Objective: Determine the industries with the highest proportion of accepted COVID-19 related workers’ compensation (WC) claims. Methods: Study included 21,336 WC claims (1898 COVID-19 and 19,438 other claims) that were filed between January 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020 from 11 states in the Midwest United States. Result: The overwhelming proportion of all COVID-19 related WC claims submitted … Read More

Prevention, Medical Management, and Adjudication of Workplace Injuries: A Thirty-Two Year Follow-up of an Integrated Workers’ Compensation Program

Edward J. Bernacki, Jill Barry, Nimisha Kalia, Robert A. Lavin, Sebastian A. Minor, Sharon Soistman, Xuguang (Grant) Tao | October, 2021

Objective: To describe the cost outcomes of an integrated workers’ compensation program. Methods: We studied a population that increased from 20K to 59K, incurring 8807 lost-time claims between 1988 and 2020. Results: Lost-time claims decreased from 22.15 to 4.32 per 1000 employees (1988 to 2020), and total closed lost-time claim costs per $100 payroll, decreased from $0.62 to … Read More

Workers’ Compensation Elements in Different Jurisdictions in the United States

David W. McKinney, Kathryn L. Mueller, Robert C. Blink, Rupali Das, Tanisha K. Taylor, Warren Silverman | December, 2020

Over the decades, the workers’ compensation system has provided many injured workers with a significant guarantee of both medical and financial support when they have been injured on the job. To be effective, workers’ compensation systems at a minimum should include principles that require the addressing of medical causation, determination of an individual’s functional ability … Read More

Attributes of Long Duration COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claims

Dan L. Hunt, Edward J. Bernacki, Judith Green-McKenzie, Larry Yuspeh, Leila Williams, Nicholas F. Tsourmas, Nimisha Kalia, Nina Leung, Robert A. Lavin, Xuguang (Grant) Tao | May, 2022

Objective: To examine the attributes associated with long duration COVID- 19 workers’ compensation (WC) claims. Methods: A study was conducted on 13,153 COVID-19 WC claims accepted by a workers’ compensation insurance carrier between January 1, 2020 and November 30, 2021. Results: 1) Ninety-five percent of accepted WC claims were closed within the study period; 2) five percent of … Read More