States move to limit WC medical costs. (workers' compensation)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  April 6, 1992 ;   Haggerty, Alfred G.;   493 words ......helping to solve the workers' compensation crisis. These are...which recently enacted workers' compensation medical cost containment...consultant specializing in workers' compensation and employer liability...approaches to the workers' compensation crisis here at ...

Marriott to Host Conference on Workers Compensation

The Journal Record;  June 11, 1992 ;   Nancy Raiden Titus;   281 words ...People involved with workers compensation in 16 states...Association of Workers Compensation Boards. The conference...for ideas on workers compensation issues and will...legal aspects of workers compensation as well as workers compensation plans and ...

LAW PROFESSOR'S WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOOK GETTING GLOWING REVIEWS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 11, 2007 ;     472 words ......More than 1 million people in Mississippi work...that are covered by workers' compensation - the form of insurance...work-injury problems that people encounter in the legal system. "The (workers' compensation) payments are designed...

How Much Control Should Go to Workers Compensation Court?

The Journal Record;  October 17, 1989 ;   Lou Anne Wolfe;   787 words ......control of the State Workers Compensation Court was debated...John Lewis, a workers compensation analyst who has...Committee on the Workers Compensation System to study...name, Oklahoma's Workers Compensation Court is no different...states that run workers ...

Workers' compensation challenges MCOs with myraid opportunities

Managed Healthcare;  November 1, 1997 ;   Wolfe, Karen;   647 words ......states) regulations regarding workers' compensation. Remember that workers' compensation is a legal system, not a benefit...certified by the state as a workers' compensation managed care organization. Either...projectsomeone with specific workers' compensation ...

Workers' compensation plan an early winner

The Boston Globe;  May 5, 1991 ;   Charles Stein, Globe Staff;   787 words ......straining under the weight of its workers' compensation bill. The Weymouth food company...facing a $200,000 premium for workers' compensation, an insurance program for injured...Woodford watched the hospital's workers' compensation bill grow to $250,000 from...changing Massachusetts' ...

Women's experience of the workers compensation system.(WorkCover)

Australian Journal of Social Issues;  December 22, 2005 ;   Calvey, Jo Jansz, Janis;   787 words ......neglected but studies of workers' compensation and workplace injuries...experiences with the workers' compensation system. In addition...Queensland, Australia the workers compensation system began in...inquiry was due to the workers' compensation system being ...

Comp camp: Here's a source of information for battling workers'...

Risk Management;  May 1, 1996 ;   Bruce, Rebecca Shafer;   787 words ......are drilled on the basics of workers' compensation and disability management. We...difficulty of trying to learn about workers' compensation in the early 1980s when, as...managers to take a broader view of workers' compensation and disability management within...responsible for ...

Workers' compensation fraud: how to save an arm and a leg.

Claims;  September 1, 2003 ;   McNulty, John;   787 words ......carriers millions of dollars. Workers' compensation coverage is a necessity for...most states across the country. Workers' compensation coverage provides medical care...while traveling on business, workers' compensation covers all related injuries...Fraud The most common type of ...

Fueled by WC cost hikes, services firms grow. (workers compensation claims...

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  May 18, 1992 ;   Mulcahy, Colleen;   787 words ......rapid rise of employer workers' compensation costs is fueling unrestrained...new players into the workers' compensation arena and encouraging...interest in self-insured workers' compensation options, said Jim...he said. A lot of people are rushing in to...involved in providing ...

Workers Compensation Experts Advise Oklahoma Firms on Rate...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 11, 1996 ;   Ford, Brian;   787 words ......Oklahoma City on the issue of workers compensation reform. Fallin said business...throughout the state have identified workers compensation premiums as the biggest problem...Despite a series of highly touted workers compensation reforms passed by Oklahoma state...of success stories ...

Stockton, Calif., Businesses Worry about Rising Workers Compensation...

The Record (Stockton, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 22, 2003 ;     787 words ......who employs 40 people at his Stockton...said about his workers' compensation insurance costs...know that 40 people have lost their...s staggering workers' compensation bills, experts...current levels. Workers' compensation is an actual...Wilhoit said. Workers' ...

EDITORIAL: California Should Overhaul Workers' Compensation System.

The Dispatch (Gilroy, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 14, 2003 ;     450 words ......California's workers' compensation system is badly...State, citing our workers' compensation program as a...Commerce lists workers' compensation reform as its...California's workers' compensation system -- which...increases in workers' compensation ...

Firms urged to humanize WC process. (workers' compensation)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  March 16, 1992 ;   Calise, Angela K.;   588 words ......the human side of workers' compensation, a labor leader...problems in the workers' compensation system...People are not to be used...Boston, during the Workers' Compensation Research Institute...their workers as people and not as resources...signs down. If ...

Workers compensation in Western Australia: The shifting landscape of...

Health Sociology Review;  June 1, 2008 ;   Guthrie, Rob; Barns, Angela;   787 words ......moves to successive changes to workers compensation legislation and policy initiated...Contextualising the discussion of workers compensation Any discussion or debate relating to workers compensation in Western Australia and indeed...the idea of worker welfare, workers ...