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24-hour cover experiment proposed. (CIGNA Property and Casualty Insurance Co.'s workers' compensation proposal)
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CIGNA Property and Casualty Insurance Co has offered the National Association of Insurance Commissioners an experimental workers' compensation (WC) insurance plan aimed at eliminating problems and cutting costs of the troubled WC system. The CIGNA proposal would provide 24-hour life and health insurance coverage by linking work-related illnesses and injuries to existing health maintenance organization plans. Insurance companies could augment coverage for long-term medical care. Legal costs co...
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24-hour cover experiment proposed. (CIGNA Property and Casualty Insurance Co.'s workers' compensation proposal)
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
; Workers' compensation woes could be relieved through the use of alternative dispute resolution, broader health maintenance organization participation and life and disability coverage under a 24-hour coverage program, one major insurer told regulators last month. We think it is now time to see
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Employers, workers unite to tackle WC crisis. (workers' compensation)
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
; ATLANTA--In the troubled workers' compensation market, potential solutions are beginning to sound like pleas for help. In workers' compensation, the relationship between the injured worker and the employer is so important, said Anne Clayton, director of the Workers' Compensation Division of the
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What's Happening to Workers' Compensation?
Occupational Hazards
; ... publicity surrounding them have also changed attitudes about workers' compensation. In the early 1990s innumerable local and national news stories reported on claimant fraud in workers' compensation and the cheats who apply for workers' compensation benefits. This ...
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How Much Control Should Go to Workers Compensation Court?
The Journal Record
; Whether to expand the enforcement power and control of the State Workers Compensation Court was debated Monday by an interim study committee of the Oklahoma Legislature. Exactly how much control to give the court must be agreed on by the Legislature, and that decision must be supported over the
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Eight mistakes employers make when Workers' Compensation rates go down
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; ... the country declining Workers' Compensation rates are music to employers' ears. After all, that seems like long- awaited good news, particularly since Workers' Compensation is more often than not viewed as a necessity and a significant cost of doing business ...
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Workers' compensation recipiency in union and nonunion workplaces.
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
; Workers' compensation provides a form of no-fault insurance covering workplace injuries. Benefits are paid to workers injured on the job, regardless of fault, and employers receive partial protection from lawsuits or further liability. The U.S. workers' compensation system consists of separate
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Workers compensation
Rough Notes
; Some small business owners believe that they do not need to provide workers compensation coverage; others will go to extreme measures to try to avoid providing it; and still others don't provide it out of ignorance. RISK PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS Workers compensation is a complicated field-both for
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Exploring the workers' compensation volcano.
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
; Exploring The Workers' Compensation Volcano Predictions about the next workers' compensation reform in California are about as reliable as predictions of volcanic eruptions. Long-time Capitol observers in Sacramento recall the explosion of reform in 1972. And then, there was the 1982 reform
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What's happening with costs and what to do about them: workers compensation coverage has gotten more difficult to obtain, and costlier, in the past couple of years. Companies need to focus on the source of costs and on financing structures.(workers compensation)
Financial Executive
; You don't typically expect to see newspaper headlines about workers compensation, an insurance product designed to help employers fulfill their legal obligations to provide medical care and income for employees injured at work. Lately, though, workers compensation has received considerable media
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Workers' Compensation: Foundations for Reform.(Review)
The Advocate
; Workers' Compensation: Foundations for Reform, edited by Morley Gunderson and Douglas Hyatt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Working at the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia (the Board , as it is known affectionately to those of us who toil in its large shadow) must be a
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