Will the future of workers' compensation be ADR?

As mandatory arbitration continues to be adopted in place of litigation, it remains to be be seen whether mandatory arbitration will replace costly and time consuming litigated adversarial hearings in workers' compensation. During the last two decades employers and insurance companies have fashioned contracts to include Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings to reduce costs and awards.

Reshaping Workers’ Compensation for the Sharing Economy

The most dramatic factor in re-shaping the future of workers’ compensation is that we now have a sharing economy,  Quietly, over the decades, “work” has been influenced dramatically by the Millennial Generation. As the sharing generation reinvents the economy, the element of “trust” will have the most important impact in the direction of social legislative programs such as workers’ compensation.