Bureau Of Labor Statistics Shows Dramatic Workplace Injury Decline in 2024
Showing posts with label Claims. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claims. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Deadline for Filing 9-11 Claims Approaches - Cancer Claims Soar
As the October 3, 2013 deadline for filing 9-11 World Trade Center claims for benefits approaches, an increase in the number of claims flowing from cancer continue to soar. Over 1,100 cancer claims have been filed to date.
"More than 1,100 people who worked or lived near the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been diagnosed with cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Click here to read the compete article from CNN.
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"More than 1,100 people who worked or lived near the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been diagnosed with cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Click here to read the compete article from CNN.
Click here for more information about filing a claim.
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Jon L. Gelman of Wayne NJ is the author NJ Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thompson) and co-author of the national treatise, Modern Workers’ Compensation Law (West-Thompson). For over 4 decades the Law Offices of Jon L Gelman 1.973.696.7900 jon@gelmans.com have been representing injured workers and their families who have suffered occupational accidents and illnesses.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Nation’s Biggest Assisted Living Chain Agrees to Pay $2.2 Million to Settle Claims of Cheating on Wages
| Workers who care for frail seniors win settlement from Emeritus Senior Living. The chain, the country’s largest assisted living company, agreed to pay up to $2.2 million to settle claims that it routinely underpaid workers at dozens of California operations. Hands-on workers at Emeritus centers – non-salaried aides and support staffers who provide care and clean — alleged in a suit that the company had not only shortchanged them in their pay, but also violated state laws on mandated meal times and rest periods. |
Friday, June 7, 2013
Workers are too scared in the US to file claims
A recent research report indicated that workers fail to report occupational illness and accidents for fear of retribution by their employers. Most state laws prohibition retaliation by employers, but it is very difficult to enforce that aspect of workers' compensation statutes.
Health Serv Res. 2013 May 13. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12066. [Epub ahead of print]
The Proportion of Work-Related Emergency Department Visits Not Expected to Be Paid by Workers' Compensation: Implications for Occupational Health Surveillance, Research, Policy, and Health Equity.
Source
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To examine trends in the proportion of work-related emergency department visits not expected to be paid by workers' compensation during 2003-2006, and to identify demographic and clinical correlates of such visits.
DATA SOURCE:
A total of 3,881 work-related emergency department visit records drawn from the 2003-2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys.
STUDY DESIGN:
Secondary, cross-sectional analyses of work-related emergency department visit data were performed. Odds ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals were modeled using logistic regression.
PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:
A substantial and increasing proportion of work-related emergency department visits in the United States were not expected to be paid by workers' compensation. Private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and workers themselves were expected to pay for 40 percent of the work-related emergency department visits with this percentage increasing annually. Work-related visits by blacks, in the South, to for-profit hospitals and for work-related illnesses were all more likely not to be paid by workers' compensation.
CONCLUSIONS:
Emergency department-based surveillance and research that determine work-relatedness on the basis of expected payment by workers' compensation systematically underestimate the occurrence of occupational illness and injury. This has important methodological and policy implications.
© Health Research and Educational Trust.
- PMID:
- 23662682
- [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Scarlet Letter - Workers' Compensation Style
Privacy, that was thought to be a paramount concern for individuals in workers' compensation, is now going away in Missouri. The Missouri legislature passed legislation that will allow employers to review the pending claim status of prospective employees to determine whether they have filed any workers' compensation claims. Injured workers in Missouri will now be stigmatized as a result of filing a workers' compensation claim.
"The division shall develop and maintain a workers' compensation claims database, accessible to potential employers through the division's website, containing all claims filed for compensation under this chapter. Claims records shall be retrievable only by an employer who during a pre-hire period provides a potential employee's name and social security number and shall, upon retrieval, identify the date of any claim made by such potential employee and whether the claim is open or closed."
To view the enacted bill SB34 go to www.moga.mo.gov
"The division shall develop and maintain a workers' compensation claims database, accessible to potential employers through the division's website, containing all claims filed for compensation under this chapter. Claims records shall be retrievable only by an employer who during a pre-hire period provides a potential employee's name and social security number and shall, upon retrieval, identify the date of any claim made by such potential employee and whether the claim is open or closed."
To view the enacted bill SB34 go to www.moga.mo.gov
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