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Workers' Compensation And Injury Duration: Evidence From A Natural Experiment, W. Kip Viscusi, Bruce D. Meyer, David L. Durbin
Workers' Compensation And Injury Duration: Evidence From A Natural Experiment, W. Kip Viscusi, Bruce D. Meyer, David L. Durbin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This paper examines the effect of workers' compensation on time out of work. It introduces a "natural experiment" approach of comparing individuals injured before and after increases in the maximum weekly benefit amount. The increases examined in Kentucky and Michigan raised the benefit amount for high-earnings individuals by approximately 50 percent, while low-earnings individuals, who were unaffected by the benefit maximum, did not experience a change in their incentives. Time out of work increased for those eligible for the higher benefits and remained unchanged for those whose benefits were constant. The estimated duration elasticities are clustered around 0.3-0.4.
Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide Guidelines And Limits On Number Of Corporate Exemptions; Revise Provisions Relating To Subrogation; Create A Fraud And Compliance Unit; Provide Requirements Relating To Advertising; Revise Other Miscellaneous Aspects Of Workers' Compensation System, Kimberly A. Stout
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act amends several aspects of the workers’ compensation system. First, the Act makes several changes affecting legal action under the Workers’ Compensation Act, including changes affecting employer’s subrogation liens, the admissibility of certain evidence, and required mediation. Second, the Act attempts to eliminate fraud in the area of workers’ compensation by imposing heavier penalties and by establishing a fraud and compliance unit within the Workers’ Compensation Board. Furthermore, the Act includes the Workers’ Compensation Truth in Advertising Act of 1995 to assure truthful and adequate disclosure in all advertisements relating to workers’ compensation. Finally. the Act makes numerous miscellaneous …
Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide 1996 Olympic And Paralympic Volunteers With Workers' Compensation Coverage, Keith Porterfield
Labor And Industrial Relations Workers' Compensation: Provide 1996 Olympic And Paralympic Volunteers With Workers' Compensation Coverage, Keith Porterfield
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act provides that all persons who perform voluntary service for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games or for the Atlanta Paralympic Organizing Committee will be considered employees of the organization for the purpose of workers’ compensation coverage.
Causes Of Litigation In Workers' Compensation Programs, Evangelos Mariou Falaris, Charles R. Link, Michael E. Staten
Causes Of Litigation In Workers' Compensation Programs, Evangelos Mariou Falaris, Charles R. Link, Michael E. Staten
Upjohn Press
By applying econometric analyses to case data from two states, Falaris, Link and Staten identify the economic incentives influencing the probability of litigation in workers' compensation cases, and the probability that a contested case is pursued to verdict.
Employer Liability Under The Third Party Provision Of The Washington Industrial Insurance Act: The Dual Capacity And Dual Persona Doctrines In Evans V. Thompson, Melissa M. Jackson
Employer Liability Under The Third Party Provision Of The Washington Industrial Insurance Act: The Dual Capacity And Dual Persona Doctrines In Evans V. Thompson, Melissa M. Jackson
Seattle University Law Review
Most workers' compensation schemes are designed to provide a swift and sure source of benefits to injured workers by placing on employers the risks and burdens of modern industry. In keeping with this policy, Washington's Industrial Insurance Act2 (IIA) requires injured workers to relinquish the right to sue at common law for damages sustained on the job, and it requires employers to accept liability for a measure of damages set out by the statute. However, if a worker's injuries are caused by the negligence of a third person who is not in the worker's same employ, the IIA's third-party provision …