NWCDN Members regularly post articles and summary judgements in workers’ compensations law in your state.
Select a state from the dropdown menu below to scroll through the state specific archives for updates and opinions on various workers’ compensation laws in your state.
Contact information for NWCDN members is also located on the state specific links in the event you have additional questions or your company is seeking a workers’ compensation lawyer in your state.
This month US Labor Secretary Thomas Perez released the highly anticipated report on workers’ compensation entitledDoes The Workers’ Compensation System Fulfill Its Obligations to Injured Workers?The report’s answer to that question is “no,” and it cites deficiencies in the workers’ compensation system and ominously recommends that legislators consider “whether to increase the federal role in oversight of workers’ compensation programs.”
We note with interest that the report commented on the recent Workers’ Compensation Summit, stating that “a gathering of diverse workers’ compensation experts in a self-styled summit concluded that benefit adequacy, system failures, and delays in medical treatment were the three foremost issues requiring action.” Our own Jane Stone was one of those “diverse workers compensation experts” that participated in the Summit.
More information regarding the Summit is available at
Workerscompensationcentral.com.