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late-term compensation care for injured workers |
NCCI research analyzes decline in late-term medical costs as claimants age
Roger Rabb, J.D. is a Special Correspondent for the LexisNexis Workers' Compensation eNewsletter.
 When comparing the costs associated with providing medical treatment for injuries, even job-related injuries, the "common-sense" conclusion might be that costs for a claim will increase as the claimant gets older. However, that conclusion may not be true. In a January 2013 study, researchers for the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) found that the average annual workers' compensation medical payments made for late-term care to claimants who were younger than 60 years of age at the time of treatment exceeded the average annual payments for claimants who were older than 60 when treated...read more. |
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LexisNexis Practice Guide Massachusetts Workers' Compensation is designed to assist the new practitioner, the sometime practitioner and the experienced practitioner with the day-to-day ins and outs of practice before the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents...We hope that this volume will enable the reader to understand the basic principles of workers' compensation law and practice, thus allowing the practitioner the ability to litigate a case from intake to final resolution...read more. |
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LARSON'S SPOTLIGHT ON RECENT CASES |
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers' compensation.
Virginia: Employee Sustaining Unexplained Fall Enjoys No Presumption of Compensability. A Virginia appellate court denied benefits to an employee who sustained injuries when he fell from the bed of a pickup truck...read more.
Florida: Injured Worker May Not Rely on Affidavit to Contradict Her Own Prior Testimony to Defeat Summary Judgment Motion. A Florida appellate court affirmed a trial court's decision granting summary judgment in favor of a defendant that claimed it was immune from suit...read more.
Arkansas: Injury Sustained Seconds After Truck Driver "Signed Out" Not Covered by Comp Act. An Arkansas appellate court has affirmed the denial of benefits to a truck driver who injured his right ankle a few seconds after he...read more.
Missouri: Parking Lot Injury Covered In Spite of Fact That Employer Did Not Own It. A Missouri appellate court affirmed an award of workers' compensation benefits to an employee who sustained a severe knee injury when he slipped...read more. |
Late-Term Compensation Care for Injured Workers
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