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10 ways in which workers' compensation needs to evolve

One of the foremost experts in this line offers his perspective on what changes need to occur in order to keep pace with changing demographics and injury exposures, from bureaucracy and waiting periods to state variations.

By Mark Walls | Updated on May 16, 2016

Workers’ Compensation has been around for more than a century. It was developed as a grand bargain between labor and employers to ensure that injured workers received appropriate medical care and wage loss benefits while employers received protections against tort lawsuits arising from workplace injuries.

Yet the workplace is vastly different now than it was when Workers’ Compensation was conceived. Workers’ Compensation has also evolved in some ways, but in other ways it has not kept pace with changing workplace demographics and injury exposures.

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