Revisiting Incentive Effects in Workers' Compensation: Do Higher Benefits Really Induce More Claims?

Second workers' compensation claims: who is at risk? Analysis of WorkSafe Victoria, Australia compensation claims.

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors associated with early repeat workers' compensation claims in Victoria, Australia and to compare our findings with those of a study on the Alberta's Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) in Canada. METHODS We reviewed and described 178,630 claims from 1996-2009. Both persons with single and persons with multiple claims were included. Survival analysis was us...

The Role of Incentive Measures in Workers’ Compensation Schemes

Outcomes after hip arthroscopy in patients with workers' compensation claims.

Patients with a workers' compensation claim have been shown to have inferior outcomes after various orthopedic procedures. In hip arthroscopy, good to excellent results have been shown in the athletic and prearthritic population in short-term and long-term follow-up. In the current study, the authors' hypothesis was that patients with a workers' compensation claim would have inferior outcomes a...

Workers' compensation: coverage, benefits, and costs, 1986.

would operate under future conditions that m&t rensonnbly be expected to develop The figures used here are based on the alternn-twe II or " mtermed~nte " nssumptlons from the 1977 Trustees Reports, mcludmg nssumptlons that-the fertlhty rete nil1 continue to decrease (from its estimnted lexe, m 1910 of 171 eh,ldre " ,,er aoman), go,n~ doan to 16; cbxldren DW \\ " " I " " I " 1980, then the rate ...

Workers’ Compensation: Coverage, Benefits, and Costs, 1979

Workers’ compensation is the oldest social insurance program in the United States. The first law was passed in 1908 to provide cash and medical benefits for workrelated disability and death. This program now consists of 50 independent State operations and several Federal programs. The experience under workers’ compensation is of considerable importance to the Social Security Administration beca...