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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

Black Lung Program: Rising Rates, Troubled Funding

Leslie I. Boden | May, 2022

This Workers’ Compensation Issue Spotlight explains how the federal Black Lung Program provides benefits to workers with a variety of debilitating lung conditions resulting from work in coal mines. The Program is currently deeply in debt, and the proportion of miners developing black lung disease has increased over the past 25 years. This explores the forces driving increases in rates of black … Read More

Earnings Losses and Benefit Adequacy in California’s Workers’ Compensation System: Estimates for 2005–2017 Injury Dates

Michael Dworsky, Nicholas Broten, Stephanie Rennane | February, 2022

This final report in a series is part of a regular effort to monitor the wage losses of injured workers in the California workers’ compensation system between 2013 and 2017. It updates estimates of trends in earnings losses reported in this project’s three interim reports and includes analysis of the factors that have driven changes … Read More

Major Issues of Workmen’s Compensation Law

C. Arthur Williams, Peter S. Barth | January, 1973

The chapter examines compensability of injuries, including the legal requirement in most states that the disabled worker must have a personal injury by accident that arises out of employment (AOE) and in the course of employment (COE) in order to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits. The chapter also discusses compensability of diseases, including the limitations … Read More

Income Replacement Benefits: II

C. Arthur Williams, Peter S. Barth | January, 1973

The chapter provides information on two types of cash benefits: Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) Benefits and Death Benefits. The information on PPD benefits include the effects of the statutory (nominal) replacement rates and of maximum weekly benefits on the adequacy of PPD benefits (with data on PPD benefits for all states). The discussion of PPD … Read More

Income Replacement Benefits: I

C. Arthur Williams, Peter S. Barth | January, 1973

The chapter provides information on two types of cash benefits provided by workers’ compensation program: Temporary Total Disability (TTD) benefits and Permanent Total Disability Benefits (PTD). (Two other types of cash benefits are discussed in Chapter 9). The Information on Cash Benefits Calculation include (1) the effect of waiting periods, the statutory (nominal) replacement rate, … Read More

United States Workmen’s Compensation Programs: Major Characteristics

C. Arthur Williams, Peter S. Barth | January, 1973

A brief (11 page) overview of workers’ compensation, with short introductions on agencies and courts, coverage of workers and employers, compensability of injuries and diseases, cash benefits, medical benefits, insurance, costs of workers’ compensation programs and safety and health. The overview was prepared in 1972 by the staff of the National Commission on State Workmen’s … Read More