NCCI: COVID-19 Will Cost Billions Even With Modest Infection Rates April 28, 2020 By Jim Sams If only 10 percent of health care workers contract COVID-19 and all of their claims are deemed compensable, workers’ compensation...
Analyst Projects COVID-19 Presumption for Work Comp Will Cost $10 Billion April 27, 2020 By Susanne Sclafane While the potential cost of relaxing a tenet of the workers compensation system to deal with extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19...
Employers Pushing Back as States Expand Work Comp to Cover COVID-19 April 22, 2020 By Jim Sams As more states take action to ensure workers who contract COVID-19 are eligible for workers’ compensation, employers in Illinois are...
Regulators and Lawmakers Introducing Workers’ Comp to COVID-19 April 20, 2020 By Jim Sams Sympathetic state lawmakers and regulators in states both red and blue promise to make COVID-19 a major cost driver for...
New Laws in Calif., Colo., Mich., Ore. and La. to Impact Claims Professionals December 17, 2019 By Jim Sams Legislation that creates potential for more employment law claims in California and a measure that may give attorneys a new...