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Student-Athletes May Sustain Life-Long Injuries. How Can They Be Covered By Workers’ Compensation Insurance If They Are Not Considered Employees?

Norma Martin Goonen, Sylvia Medina-Shore | June, 2022

The serious and sometimes life-long nature of the injuries that some student-athletes suffer as they play for their college and universities has been the subject of growing concern in the past two decades. Simultaneously, the revenue produced by college athletics has also increased. This review details the history, recent developments, and case law related to … Read More

The Lack of Correspondence Between Work-Related Disability and Receipt of Workers’ Compensation Benefits

Emily A. Spieler, John F. Burton Jr. | June, 2012

Background Previous studies suggest that many persons with disabilities caused by work do not receive workers’ compensation benefits. Methods Data from surveys of persons with disabilities were used to estimate the proportion of disability due to work-related injuries and diseases. Studies examining the proportion of workers with work-related disability who received workers’ compensation benefits were … Read More

Covered Employment Under State Workmen’s Compensation Laws

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

The information on coverage of workers and employers by state workers’ compensation laws include elective and compulsory laws, limitations of coverage to specified hazardous employment, exemption of farmworkers, domestic workers, and casual employees, lack of coverage of some public employees, exclusion of self-employed persons, and the coverage of railroad workers and seamen by federal programs. … 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