Orlando, Fla.–Workers' compensation professionals need to examine ways to improve the workers' compensation system and ensure that even the most seriously injured return to work quickly, the president of Wausau Insurance said today.
Joseph Gilles, also chief operating officer of Wausau, made his points at the opening session of the 60th Annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference here, sponsored by The National Underwriter Company and the Florida Workers' Compensation Institute Inc., with a variety of data showing how the system has changed since his company issued the first comp insurance policy in 1911.
He noted that the system, initially begun as a social experiment, had goals that included replacing a share of lost income, covering "related" injury medical costs, and operating efficiently with easy to understand benefits that included incentives to get employees back to work.
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