A cumulative trauma injury is an injury that may be work-related and occur over a long period of time. This type of injury is also called a repetitive trauma injury. Just as other types of work-related injuries, cumulative trauma injuries also involve medical record...
Workers Compensation
Will Workers’ Compensation Cover Chronic Mental Stress?
Stress is a global phenomenon and we are all often stressed out at work. However, is a stress-related workers' compensation claim feasible? Is the evidence provided by a medical records review...
CCIP Coverage in Workers’ Compensation – Benefits for General Contractors
Workers’ compensation benefits are paid to employees injured at the workplace and provide wage replacement and medical coverage. To prevent fraudulent claims, the system uses processes such as...
How to Design and Implement a Successful Return-to-work Program for Injured Employees
The workers' compensation program that compensates employees injured at the workplace as well as those that have acquired work-related illnesses on the basis of a medical chart review is built on...
What Categories of Workers Are Exempt from Workers’ Compensation Coverage?
Workers' compensation is an important beneficial program that compensates injured workers, providing both medical coverage and a portion of their lost wages. The benefits are awarded only on the...
How Corporate Social Responsibility Is Significant in Workers’ Compensation
Workers' compensation is a beneficial program both for employees and employers since it provides the much needed coverage for medical expenses and lost wages for the former, and compliance and peace...
How a Business’ XMod Could Affect the Workers’ Compensation Premium
Workers' compensation insurance is one of the major expenses for any business. This program involves important processes such as medical record retrieval and medical chart reviews. Workers'...
How to Terminate an Employee on Workers’ Comp. Facts, Protocols and Checklists
Employees who fall ill or are injured while on the job in the U.S. are covered by the company’s workers’ compensation insurance. Medical record retrieval and medical records review are important...
Workers’ Compensation System – Meeting the Challenges and Staying Relevant
Workers injured while on the job are eligible for workers' compensation insurance - this benefit is granted only on the basis of a medical records review to establish the injury and its severity....
First Responders’ Mental Illnesses to Be Covered under Workers’ Compensation in Vermont
Psychological injuries comprise an important component of claims in both Personal Injury and Employment Law. Here medical records review is an important first step to establish the injury. Insurance...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Reform Treading a Difficult Path
Illinois workers' compensation system was created at the beginning of the twentieth century, when many workers were engaged in dangerous industrial jobs. Workplace accidents and injuries would be...