Title

Current Issues in Workers' Compensation

Year

1986

Abstract

This book reports on and offers analysis of a wide ranges of issues related to workers' compensation including administration, state reforms, costs, and reforms.

Contents

  1. The Status and Direction of Workers' Compensation: An Introduction to Current Issues / James R. Chelius
  2. The Minnesota Experience with Workers' Compensation Reform / Steve Keefe
  3. The 1982 Changes in California / Alan Tebb
  4. Two Rounds of Workers' Compensation Reform in Michigan / H. Allan Hunt
  5. The Politics of Workers' Compensation Reform / John H. Lewis
  6. Discussion of Papers on Recent State Reforms / Michael Staten
  7. Interstate Variations in the Employers' Costs of Workers' Compensation, with Particular Reference to Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York / John F. Burton, Jr. and Alan B. Krueger
  8. Workers' Compensation Insurance Rates: Their Determination and Regulation / C. Arthur Williams, Jr.
  9. The Administration of Workers' Compensation / Monroe Berkowitz
  10. Nominal Costs, Nominal Prices, and Nominal Profits / John D. Worrall
  11. Federal Occupational Disease Legislation: A Current Review / Donald Elisburg
  12. Issues in Asbestos Disease Compensation / Donald L. Spatz
  13. Problems in Occupational Disease Compensation / Leslie I. Boden
  14. On Efforts to Reform Workers' Compensation for Occupational Diseases / Peter S. Barth
  15. Accident Compensation as a Factor Influencing Managerial Perceptions and Behavior in New Zealand / Barbara McIntosh

Sponsorship

Rutgers University. Institute of Management and Labor Relations

ISBN

9780880990363 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Workers compensation and disability