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Administrative Costs

Use: Delivery System Cost

Agencies and Courts

See also: Delivery System Costs; Delivery System Performance

  • Agencies and Courts: General
  • Agencies and Courts: Structure
  • Agencies and Courts: Procedures and Practices
  • Agencies and Courts: Performance Standards
  • Agencies and Courts: Evaluations

Alternative Remedies for Work-Related Injuries and Diseases

Use: Reform of Workers’ Compensation

Attorneys

See also: Delivery System Costs; Delivery System Performance

  • Attorneys: General
  • Attorneys: Fees
  • Attorneys: Usage
  • Attorneys: Evaluations

Cash Benefits

[Includes Legal tests and economic analysis]

See also: Economic Analysis: Incentives for Workers

  • Cash Benefits: General
  • Cash Benefits: Conceptual Framework, Purposes, Operational Approaches
  • Cash Benefits: Benefits Calculations (Including Spendable Earnings)
  • Cash Benefits: Determining the Degree of Impairment and Disability [Incudes AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment]
  • Cash Benefits: Temporary Total and Temporary Partial Disability Benefits
  • Cash Benefits: Permanent Partial Disability Benefits
  • Cash Benefits: Permanent Total Disability Benefits
  • Cash Benefits: Death Benefits
  • Cash Benefits: Relationship Between WC and Other Programs
  • Cash Benefits: Evaluations

Causes of Injuries and Diseases Among Workers

  • Injuries and Diseases Among Workers from Any Cause
  • Injuries and Diseases Among Workers from Work-Related Causes

Compensability of Injuries and Diseases

[Legal tests for compensability]

  • Compensability of Injuries and Diseases: General
  • Compensability of Injuries
  • Compensability of Diseases
  • Compensability of Marginal Conditions
  • Compensability: Evaluations

Consequences of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in Addition to Costs of Workers’ Compensation

See also: Costs of Workers’ Compensation

  • Consequences of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in Addition to Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Workers and Their Families
  • Consequences of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in Addition to Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Employers
  • Consequences of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in Addition to Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Paid by Society

Costs of Workers’ Compensation

See also: Consequences of Work-Related Injuries and Diseases in Addition to Costs of Workers’ Compensation

See also: Cost Shifting

See also: Delivery System Costs

See also: Economic Analysis: Effect of Costs on Competitive Environment

  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: General
  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Cash Benefits
  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Medical Benefits
  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Paid by Employers
  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Paid by Workers
  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Paid from General Revenue
  • Costs of Workers’ Compensation: Evaluations

Cost Shifting

  • Cost Shifting: General
  • Cost Shifting: To Employers and Insurance Carriers
  • Cost Shifting: To Workers’ Compensation Programs
  • Cost Shifting: To Workers and Families
  • Cost Shifting: To Social Security Disability Insurance
  • Cost Shifting: To Other Government Programs

Coverage of Injuries and Diseases

Use: Compensability of Injuries and Diseases

Coverage of Workers and Employers

  • Coverage of Workers and Employers: General
  • Coverage of Workers
  • Coverage of Employers
  • Coverage of Workers and Employers: Fraud
  • Coverage of Workers and Employers: Relations with Other Programs
  • Coverage of Workers and Employers: Evaluations

Delivery System Costs

[The delivery system includes both private and public organizations, such as insurers, self-insuring employers, courts, and workers’ compensation agencies. A variety of individuals are also involved, including attorneys and physicians.]

  • Delivery System Costs: General
  • Delivery System Costs: Employers [Includes administrative Costs for Self-Insuring Employers]
  • Delivery System Costs: Insurers
  • Delivery System Costs: Lawyers and Litigation
  • Delivery System Costs: Agencies
  • Delivery System Costs: Government
  • Delivery System Costs: Evaluations

Delivery System  Performance

[Delivery System Performance measures the extent to which the organizations and individuals in the delivery system achieve workers’ compensation goals, such as adequate and equitable cash and medical benefits.]

  • Delivery System Performance: General
  • Delivery System Performance: Employers
  • Delivery System Performance: Insurers
  • Delivery System Performance: Lawyers and Litigation
  • Delivery System Performance: Agencies
  • Delivery System Performance: Government
  • Delivery System Performance: Evaluations

Dispute Resolution

[Includes Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Established by Statute or by Collective Bargaining]

  • Dispute Resolution: General
  • Dispute Resolution: Compromise and Release Agreements
  • Dispute Resolution: Litigation
  • Dispute Resolution: Mediation and Ombudspersons
  • Dispute Resolution: Fact-Finding and Arbitration
  • Dispute Resolution: Evaluations

Economic Analysis

See also: Safety and Health

See also: Cost Shifting

  • Economic Analysis: General
  • Economic Analysis: Incentives for Workers [Includes Moral Hazard]
  • Economic Analysis: Incentives for Employers and Insurance Carriers
  • Economic Analysis: Incentives for Other Participants in Delivery System [Incudes lawyers, health care providers, government agencies]
  • Economic Analysis: Effects of Costs on Competitive Environment
  • Economic Analysis: Evaluations

External Developments Affecting Workers’ Compensation

  • External Developments Affecting WC: General
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Labor Market
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Financial [Includes Government Financial Constraints]
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Other Economic Developments [Includes Globalization]
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Health Care
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Legal
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Political
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Other
  • External Developments Affecting WC: Evaluations

Federal-State Relations

  • Federal-State Relations: General
  • Federal-State Relations: Federal Standards for State Programs
  • Federal-State Relations: Federal Programs that Replace State Programs
  • Federal-State Relations: Evaluations

History of Workers’ Compensation

  • History of Workers’ Compensation: General
  • History of Workers’ Compensation: Precursors
  • History of Workers’ Compensation: Origins 1900-1920 (See also: Legal Issues: The Grand Bargain)
  • History of Workers’ Compensation: 1920-1970
  • History of Workers’ Compensation: 1970-1990
  • History of Workers’ Compensation: Since 1990
  • History of Workers’ Compensation: Evaluations

Individuals Who Influenced Workers’ Compensation

  • Individuals Who Influenced Workers’ Compensation: Government Officials
  • Individuals Who Influenced Workers’ Compensation: Practitioners
  • Individuals Who Influenced Workers’ Compensation: Scholars
  • Individuals Who Influenced Workers’ Compensation: Others

Information on Injuries and Diseases

  • Information on Injuries and Diseases: General
  • Information on Injuries and Diseases: Frequency and Severity

Information on Workers’ Compensation

  • Information on Workers’ Compensation: General
  • Information on Workers’ Compensation: Tables, Figures, and Graphs
  • Information on Workers’ Compensation: Statistics and Data

Insurance

  • Insurance: General
  • Insurance: Private Insurance Carriers
  • Insurance: Government Insurance Funds
  • Insurance: Self-Insuring Employers
  • Insurance: Special Funds [Includes Second Injury Funds and other Special Funds]
  • Insurance: Evaluations

International Studies

  • International Studies: General
  • International Studies: Multi-Country
  • International Studies: Single Country

Legal Issues

See also: Compensability of Injuries and Diseases

See also: Coverage of Workers and Employers

See also: Dispute Resolution: Compromise and Release Agreements

  • Legal Issues: General
  • Legal Issues: Apportionment
  • Legal Issues: Burden of Proof and Quantum of Proof
  • Legal Issues: Compromise and Release Agreements
  • Legal Issues: Conflict of Laws and Extra-Jurisdictional Coverage
  • Legal Issues: Constitutional Issues
  • Legal Issues: Fraud
  • Legal Issues: The Grand Bargain
  • Legal Issues: Notice, Claim, and Reporting Requirements
  • Legal issues: Statutes of Limitation
  • Legal Issues: Evaluations

Medical Benefits

  • Medical Benefits: General
  • Medical Benefits: Theory and Purposes
  • Medical Benefits: Description of Benefits
  • Medical Benefits: Medical Rehabilitation
  • Medical Benefits: Over Utilization [Includes Opioids and Back Injuries and Diseases]
  • Medical Benefits: Under Utilization
  • Medical Benefits: Quality of Care [Includes Extent of Evidence-Based Medicine]
  • Medical Benefits: Choice of Treating Physicians
  • Medical Benefits: Other Cost Containment Strategies
  • Medical Benefits: Relationship Between WC and Other Programs
  • Medical Benefits: Evaluations

Objectives of Workers’ Compensation

See also: Theories of Workers’ Compensation

  • Objectives of Workers’ Compensation: General
  • Objectives of Workers’ Compensation: Major Objectives from National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws
  • Objectives of Workers’ Compensation: Other Sources
  • Objectives of Workers’ Compensation: Evaluations

Opioids

Use: Medical Benefits: Over Utilization

Organizations

  • Organizations: Representing Employers
  • Organizations: Representing Workers
  • Organizations: Representing Insurers
  • Organizations: Representing Agencies or Courts
  • Organizations: Conducting Research

Overview of Workers’ Compensation

  • Overview of Workers’ Compensation: General
  • Overview of Workers’ Compensation: Specific WC Programs
  • Overview of Workers’ Compensation: Evaluations

Reform of Workers’ Compensation

See also: External Factors Affecting Workers’ Compensation

See also: Federal-State Relations

  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: General
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: The National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: Adequacy and Equity
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: Cost Containment
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: Within Workers’ Compensation
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: Integration with other Programs
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: Replacement by Other Programs
  • Reform of Workers’ Compensation: Evaluations

Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Other Programs

See also: Cash Benefits: Relationship Between WC and Other Program

See also: Cost Shifting

See also: Medical Benefits: Relationship Between WC and Other Program

See also: Tort Suits Relationship with Workers’ Compensation

  • Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Other Programs: General
  • Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Other Programs: Federals
  • Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Other Programs: State
  • Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Other Programs: Provided by Employers
  • Relationship Between Workers’ Compensation and Other Programs: Evaluations

Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs

See also: Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs

  • Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs: General
  • Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs: Measuring and Data
  • Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs: Federal Programs
  • Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs: State Programs
  • Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs: Insurer and Employer Programs [Includes Disability Management]
  • Return-to-Work (RTW) Programs: Evaluations

Safety and Health     

  • Safety and Health: General
  • Safety and Health: State Safety and Health Programs
  • Safety and Health: The OSHAct and Other Federal Programs
  • Safety and Health: Private Sector Programs
  • Safety and Health: Labor Market Effects
  • Safety and Health: Workers’ Compensation Effects
  • Safety and Health: Tort Suit Effects
  • Safety and Health: Evaluations

Statutes and Regulations

  • Statutes and Regulations: General
  • Statutes and Regulations: The Model Act published by the Council of State Governments
  • Statutes and Regulations: Evaluations

Theories of Workers’ Compensation

See also: Objectives of Workers’ Compensation

  • Theories of Workers’ Compensation: General
  • Theories of Workers’ Compensation: Economic
  • Theories or Workers’ Compensation: Legal
  • Theories of Workers’ Compensation: Evaluations

Tort Suits

See also: Safety and Health: Tort Suit Effects

See also: Tort Suits Relationship with Workers’ Compensation

  • Tort Suits: General
  • Tort Suits: As an Alternative Remedy for Workplace Injuries and Diseases
  • Tort Suits: Evaluations

Tort Suits Relationship with Workers’ Compensation

  • Tort Suits Relationship with WC: General
  • Tort Suits Relationship with WC: WC as the Exclusive Remedy Against Employers [Includes Exceptions to the Exclusive Remedy Doctrine]
  • Tort Suits Relationship with WC: Tort Suits Against Third Parties [Includes Suits Against Insurance Carriers and Co-workers]
  • Tort Suits Relationship with WC: Subrogation, Set-offs, and Credits
  • Tort Suits Relationship with WC: The Dual-Denial Doctrine [Disabled Workers are Denied both WC Benefits and Tort Suits]
  • Tort Suits Relationship with WC: Evaluations

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs

See also: Return to Work (RTW) Programs

  • Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs: General
  • Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs: Federal Programs [Includes Federal-State Programs]
  • Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs: State Programs
  • Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs: Insurer and Employer Programs
  • Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Programs: Evaluations