Download or read book Experiences of Injured Workers in the Workers Compensation System written by Lynn Kobus and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Injured Worker and Healthcare Provider Experiences in Workers Compensation Systems written by Elizabeth Kilgour and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is becoming widely accepted that recovery is slowed for injured persons who are involved in compensation systems, yet the reasons for this are unclear. Interactions between injured workers and healthcare providers and insurers can affect the injured workers' engagement in rehabilitation and thus their recovery and return to work. Injured worker perspectives have only recently been considered in the research literature, and less attention has been paid to healthcare provider experiences within workers' compensation systems. This thesis examines the experiences and perceptions of injured workers internationally, and healthcare provider experiences and perceptions both internationally and within the state of Victoria, Australia, regarding their involvement in workers' compensation systems. This thesis focuses on the experiences of psychologists as a subgroup of healthcare providers that provide services to injured workers who have sustained both work-related physical and mental health injuries. This thesis utilises three distinct qualitative methodologies to investigate injured worker and healthcare provider experiences: a systematic review of qualitative literature; exploratory research through "idea building" with groups of psychologists; and in-depth interviews with individual psychologists. Critical realism is the paradigm that serves as the theoretical framework which guides this research. Critical realism fits neatly with other methodologies such as thematic analysis and meta-ethnographic synthesis methods that were used to analyse the findings and to uncover the deeper meaning of participants' experiences and the corresponding broader implications for workers' compensation system administrators. A number of key messages were repeated across the systematic review, the group research and individual interviews. It was identified that interactions between injured workers and insurers are interwoven in cyclical and pathogenic relationships that create secondary psychological consequences for injured workers. A number of claims management processes, namely independent medical evaluations and surveillance, were identified as being harmful to injured workers and complicated treatment. The research highlights independent medical evaluations as a central procedure in the workers' compensation system that creates stress and promulgates stigma for injured workers. Insurers' evaluation of psychologists' treatment and disputation of professional opinions via independent medical evaluations also impacted the efficacy of treatment. Injured workers can be caught between the adversarial interactions that exist between healthcare providers and insurers. Healthcare providers found that system-related administrative demands, together with delays in treatment approvals and payments, reduced their level of job satisfaction and willingness to work in the workers' compensation arena. The findings from the research outlined in this thesis support existing literature that concludes injured workers' recovery is slower when involved in compensation systems. The thesis also extends current knowledge in the occupational health field by identifying the lack of procedural justice that should be accorded to injured workers and healthcare providers alike. A number of changes to policy and clinical practice are suggested to effectively address the identified problems.
Download or read book Depraved Indifference written by Pat Woeppel Ed.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across America's workplaces; workers are being injured, killed or exposed to toxic chemicals from which they are dying. An estimated 66,000 persons die each year from occupational illnesses and injuries in our country: An epidemic of monumental proportions. Almost a century after the introduction of Workers' Compensation; workers, their families, communities all pay the price for the devastating human and environmental consequences of this failure to hold corporations accountable for their actions. The stories in Depraved Indifference are the stories of ordinary people. Discarded and forgotten by their employers, denied medical coverage by the workers' compensation insurers; many have been left to die, slowly and agonizingly, unnoticed by all but the ones who really care - their grieving families. Depraved Indifference represents over five years of research and interviews. It lays bare a Workers' Compensation system that cavalierly exposes workers to severe injury, toxic exposure and death; while throwing the major cost unto the family and the taxpayer, without fear of lawsuit, prosecution or even public outcry. It is a call to action. Depraved Indifference by Patrice Woeppel is a well researched look at the failure of workers' compensation laws to deliver the promise of fast, sure and adequate benefits based upon a no fault approach to compensating on-the-job injury and death. The author makes the case that miniscule benefits, the ability to starve out injured workers and their families, the lack of official oversight, the lack of meaningful penalties for violations and the lack of any criminal prosecution of employers for criminal acts of depraved indifference to human life, make for an unsafe workplace for millions of Americans. The numbers are staggering. It is an epidemic of death and economic destruction in the American workplace, unchecked by trial by jury to bring wrongdoers to the bar of justice. -Mark L. Zientz, Esq. Woeppel explains the problem and also lays out a solution " Depraved Indifference: The Workers' Compensation System is a scholarly look at the American workers' compensation laws and how they are unjust for today's world filled with high risk jobs and deadly chemicals that many must work with almost daily. With a suggested reform model presented, Woeppel explains the problem and also lays out a solution, giving Depraved Indifference a critical recommendation. -James Andrew, Midwest Book Review The workers' compensation system does more to protect corporations than injured workers, according to this well-researched analysis that draws on a number of actual cases, including the author's own experience after an injury while working in a hospital. The final chapter gives her prescription for reform. -Matt Witt, City University of New York, New Labor Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2: Spring, 2009. Depraved Indifference: The Workers' Compensation System is the best book on workers' compensation in thirty years. -Daniel M. Berman, Ph.D., author of Death On the Job: Occupational Health and Safety Struggles in the United States.
Download or read book Navigating the California Workers Compensation System written by Julie Sum and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries written by Mark A. Peterson and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers in California experiencing injuries at work that result in permanent partial disabilities (PPD) are eligible to receive compensation. The workers' benefits, doctors' and attorneys' fees, and the system that processes the hundreds of thousands of annual claims cost employers billions of dollars each year. This report evaluates the workers' compensation system by examining its efficiency and the adequacy and equity of its benefits, and suggests system reforms. The authors conducted interviews with system participants and found that the system is still troubled by many of the same problems that plagued it before the 1989 and 1993 reforms. It remains overly costly, complex, and litigious while delivering modest benefits. The authors estimated the wage losses of PPD claimants in 1991-93, and found that even after five years, the injured workers earned considerably less than controls. In addition, injured workers experience considerable time out of work, not just immediately after the injury, but also after the initial return to work. The authors identified particular problems among claims categorized by the workers' compensation system as "minor," the vast majority of claims. For this group, wage replacement rates were lowest. Reform proposals include an elective fast track to streamline claims processing, and a revision to the disability rating schedule to improve the relationship between wage loss and benefits paid.
Download or read book Injured on the Job Texas written by Sean Matula and published by Atwell Environment. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been injured on the job? Are you in pain and need help? The Texas workers compensation system will not help you unless you stand up for your rights as an injured employee. This book will guide you through the entire process, step by step and show you how get the medical care and pay you deserve. Written by an injured worker who fought the system for years and won, you will learn what the insurance companies do not want you to know. Your rights as an injured worker.
Download or read book Workers Compensation written by H. Allan Hunt and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. Allan Hunt and Marcus Dillender provide a succinct analysis of the state of WC programs in North America by focusing on three key performance issues: 1) the adequacy of compensation for those disabled in the workplace, 2) return-to-work performance for injured workers, and 3) prevention of disabling injury and disease. Following a brief introductory chapter that provides a discussion of the difficulties of trying to compare so many diverse programs, Hunt and Dillender devote a chapter to each of the three performance issues and provide empirical findings and useful guidance for policymakers and researchers as they set their sights on adapting WC for the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Experiences of Injured Workers Employed by Nonsubscribing Employers written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workers Compensation Reform and Return to Work written by Seth A. Seabury and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph analyzes the effects of changes to the workers' compensation system on return-to-work rates for California's injured workers. The authors study how public policies that influence return to work have changed in California in the past decade, estimate average return-to-work rates, compare the trends with the policy changes, and examine the impact that recent system reforms have had on benefit adequacy.
Download or read book Current Perspectives in Clinical Treatment and Management in Workers Compensation Cases written by Matt Kruger and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book integrates all aspects of medical care relevant to worker compensation. It explains benefits of the application of evidence-based approaches to worker compensation care. Improved outcomes of such approaches include less risky treatments, faster healing, and good return to work experience. It also points towards designing a better health care system with a focus on the economy, healthcare policy and change, and growing innovation in medical practice. The e-book should serve as a significantly important reference tool for several working professionals in healthcare systems as well for as students and trainees.
Download or read book Injured on the Job written by State Compensation Insurance Fund (Calif.) Workers' Compensation Issues Study Group and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Colloquium on Workers Compensation Medical Benefit Delivery and Return to Work written by Stephanie Teleki and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings are the product of a May 2003 colloquium on the workers' compensation medical benefit delivery system, with a focus on the access, cost, and quality issues facing the system and mechanisms to improve its quality and efficiency.
Download or read book Experiences of Injured Workers Texas workers who are denied medical treatment through the pre authorization process written by Amy E. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiences of Decision Makers in the Workers Compensation System written by Maria Stancati-Ens and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literature review on gender and compensable return to work revealed a lack of information specific to whether the gender of an injured worker has an impact on decision makers within a compensation system. This phenomenological study was undertaken to examine the phenomenon of gender and the lived experiences of the decision makers in the compensation system. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of how the gender of an injured worker influences the decision makers' return to work decisions. Findings from the data analysis revealed that the phenomenon of gender does have an influence on the decision makers in the compensation system and their return to work decisions. The five major themes emerging from the data include: understanding the decision maker, role of the injured worker, communication, case management, and law and policy. There are several sub-themes subsumed within each of the major themes.
Download or read book Experiences of Injured Workers written by Amy E. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carve outs in Workers Compensation written by David I. Levine and published by W. E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account of experiences made with the Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) process, with particular reference to the roles of lawyers, arbitrators, ombudsmen, unions, etc.
Download or read book Injured on the Job Texas written by Sean Matula and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been injured on the job? Are you in pain and need help? The Texas workers compensation system will not help you unless you stand up for your rights as an injured employee. This book will guide you through the entire process, step by step and show you how get the medical care and pay you deserve. Written by an injured worker who fought the system for years and won, you will learn what the insurance companies do not want you to know. Your rights as an injured worker.
