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Compensation, Commodification, And Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies And Excluded Nonlaboring Humans, Karen M. Tani Jan 2021

Compensation, Commodification, And Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies And Excluded Nonlaboring Humans, Karen M. Tani

All Faculty Scholarship

This essay reviews Nate Holdren's Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which explores the changes in legal imagination that accompanied the rise of workers' compensation programs. The essay foregrounds Holdren’s insights about disability. Injury Impoverished illustrates the meaning and material consequences that the law has given to work-related impairments over time and documents the naturalization of disability-based exclusion from the formal labor market. In the present day, with so many social benefits tied to employment, this exclusion is particularly troubling.


The Effect Of Health Insurance On Workers' Compensation Filing: Evidence From The Affordable Care Act's Age-Based Threshold For Dependent Coverage, Marcus O. Dillender Jul 2015

The Effect Of Health Insurance On Workers' Compensation Filing: Evidence From The Affordable Care Act's Age-Based Threshold For Dependent Coverage, Marcus O. Dillender

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper identifies the effect of health insurance on workers' compensation (WC) filing for young adults by implementing a regression discontinuity design using WC medical claims data from Texas. The results suggest health insurance factors into the decision to have WC pay for discretionary care. The implied instrumental variables estimates suggest a 10 percentage point decrease in health insurance coverage increases WC bills by 15.3 percent. Despite the large impact of health insurance on the number of WC bills, the additional cost to WC at age 26 appears to be small as most of the increase comes from small bills.


A Study Of Occupational Disease Claims Within Washington's Workers' Compensation System, Kevin M. Hollenbeck, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Kenneth D. Rosenman May 2013

A Study Of Occupational Disease Claims Within Washington's Workers' Compensation System, Kevin M. Hollenbeck, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Kenneth D. Rosenman

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


The Third Way: Prevention And Compensation Of Work Injury In Victoria, Australia, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Alan Clayton, Ralph W. Mcginn, Robert W. Klein, Terrance J. Bogyo Feb 2000

The Third Way: Prevention And Compensation Of Work Injury In Victoria, Australia, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Alan Clayton, Ralph W. Mcginn, Robert W. Klein, Terrance J. Bogyo

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Disability Prevention Among Michigan Employers, 1988-1993, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck, Brett Vantol, Susan M. Scully Sep 1993

Disability Prevention Among Michigan Employers, 1988-1993, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck, Brett Vantol, Susan M. Scully

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. V. Industrial Acci. Com., Jesse W. Carter Nov 1953

Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. V. Industrial Acci. Com., Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

An employee's injuries sustained when he fell to the floor as a result of an idiopathic seizure arose out of his employment where the injuries occurred at work and on his employer's premises.