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Article: Getting employees fit to work essential.(News)(return-to-work efforts )
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- Business Insurance
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- February 9, 2009
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Byline: Roberto Ceniceros
Return-to-work efforts are vital even when layoffs mean employers don't have jobs for workers compensation claimants to return to, several observers said.
Failure to help comp claimants get healthy enough to work may result in claims remaining open longer than they would in more prosperous times, as some employees cling to workers comp benefits that can be larger than weekly unemployment benefits.
"The goal is always to return them to full functionality so they can be employable elsewhere if not with their previous employer,'' said Darrell Brown, workers comp practice lead for Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. ...