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Welcome to your weekly WCI Newsletter. We have selected the top stories that appeared on our website this week to help you stay up to date on what is happening in the world of workers' compensation and insurance. Enjoy.
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 The Shrinking Discount for Lump Sum Work Comp Payments
In June, the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission changed the regulation governing the discount provided employer and carrier for lump sum payment of a workers' compensation award. OK. It can do that. But there is an ongoing debate on exactly which claims are affected. Read More |
 Advocating for Options in Workers' Compensation
A new organization, ARAWC, wants more states to be like Texas and Oklahoma, and allow employers and employees an Option in workers' compensation coverage. Read More
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 Is Ebola Compensable Under Workers' Compensation?
Is Ebola a true workers' compensation exposure for most employers? The short answer is, "no, not likely." Read More
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 California Challenges Oregon's National Work Comp Report
Oregon's recent study on workers' compensation rates nationwide shows California with the highest rates. Christine Baker, California's state's director of the Department of Industrial Relations, is crying foul. Read More |
 III: Ebola's Impact on the Insurance Industry, Workers' Compensation
The Insurance Information Institute reports that the likelihood of workers' compensation claims linked to Ebola is low, assuming that employers and their workers take CDC-recommended precautions. Read More |
 Risk Management & the Death Industry
Oregon OSHA has tackled a sensitive subject for most of us -- death. But not in the way you might think. The agency recently published a brochure on "Occupational Safety for the Death Care Industry." Read More
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 California's Governor, AB 2616, and 'Rebuttable Presumptions'
The proposed AB 2616 sought to create a "rebuttable presumption" that hospital employees who contract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) do so while on the job. What happened when that landed on the desk of California's governor? Read More |
 What Are States Doing to Prepare for an Ebola Outbreak?
Forget the feds. As in all public health emergencies, state and local public health departments are the nation's first line of defense. How are they preparing to defend their citizens against Ebola, and what legal constraints are they operating under? Read More |
