Search Results - subject:"Workers’ Compensation"

Does Increased Access to Health Insurance Impact Claims for Workers' Compensation? Evidence from Massachusetts Health Care Reform

Bronchetti, Erin Todd - 2017

impact of Massachusetts health care reform on claims for Workers' Compensation (WC). Prior evidence on the relationship …

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Does increased access to health insurance impact claims for workers' compensation? : evidence from Massachusetts health care reform

Bronchetti, Erin Todd; McInerney, Melissa - 2017

impact of Massachusetts health care reform on claims for Workers' Compensation (WC). Prior evidence on the relationship …

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Benefit generosity and injury duration : quasi-experimental evidence from regression kinks

Hansen, Benjamin; Nguyen, Tuan; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017

temporary disability claims for workers' compensation. While previous studies have focused on natural experiments created by one … all workers' compensation systems in the United States. Using administrative data on the universe of injured workers in …

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Costs of productivity loss due to occupational cancer in Canada : estimation using claims data from Workers' Compensation Boards

Wranik, W. Dominika; Muir, Adam; Hu, Min - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 9, pp. 1-11

sources of data are used: (i) Individual level administrative claims data from the Workers Compensation Board of Nova Scotia …; and (ii) provincial aggregated cancer claims statistics from the Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada … cost of occupational cancer to the Workers’ Compensation system in Canada between 1996 and 2013 was $1.2 billion. The …

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Unnecessary injury : the economic rationale and costs of new global capital requirements for large U.S. property and casualty insurers

Shapiro, Robert J.; Mathur, Aparna - In: The Journal of Financial Perspectives 4 (2017) 1, pp. 50-64

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The Effect of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Social Security Disability Insurance and Workers' Compensation Claiming

Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017

We study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Workers …' Compensation (WC) claiming among working age adults. We use data on benet claiming drawn from the 1990 to 2013 Current Population …

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The Burden of the Bargain : Revisiting the Predicament of Meshing Workers' Compensation and Tort Law in Light of Widespread Acceptance of Aligning Liability with Fault

Teichmann, Margaret - 2017

Most courts, legislatures, and scholars agree that the widespread movement over the past half-century toward aligning liability with fault has positively influenced tort law; however, the change has not come without difficulty. Courts and legislatures have struggled to determine how these...

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Unnecessary Injury : The Economic Rationale and Costs of New Global Capital Requirements for Large U.S. Property and Casualty Insurers

Shapiro, Robert J. - 2017

In the wake of 2008-2009 global financial crisis (GFC), governments in most developed countries adopted new forms of financial regulation; more recently their attention has shifted to international regulation. One trans-national effort involves applying new global capital requirements to...

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On the Waterfront at the Pier's Edge : The Longshoremen's and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act

Smith, George P. - 2016

This Article studies both inconsistent and indecisive judicial interpretations of The Longshoremen and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act and calls for congressional action to end the stark disparities in coverage between landward work conduct for maritime workers when boing between ship and...

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The Effect of No-Fault Workers’ Compensation on Occupational Accident Rates

Winkler, Kay - 2016

In countries with workers' compensation schemes, employees receive compensation for injuries at work regardless of …

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