The Attack on the Citadel: A Potential National Loss

Workers’ Compensation is conceptually changing, and its extinction is becoming more apparent rather than its transformation. Over the past decades, the “grand bargain” of Workers’ Compensation had evolved to ease the American industrial/manufacturing revolution forward, without burden from the economic complexities and ramifications of the Civil Justice System. 

“The Promise” made in 1911, with the adoption of the compensation system, is now past history. The demands of the globalized marketplace have eroded the fortress of workers’ compensation that protected the rights, safety and lives of American workers.

Dynamic developments, occurring at an ever increasing pace, have altered the landscape and accelerated a devastating attack on the citadel of workers’ compensation. The root of the cause is economic.