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The Future of Workers' Compensation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Irvin Stander
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Dissatisfied with state workers' compensation laws, business interests, labor unions, state compensation bureaus, self insurers, and private insurance carriers, despite their disparate interests, increasingly agree that such laws are in need of significant revision. But the call for reform has been heard before. In 1972, the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws (hereinafter referred to as the National Commission) reported to the President and Congress that “… the protection furnished by workmen's compensation to American workers presently is, in general, inadequate and inequitable.”

Between 1972 and 1977 hundreds of state laws were enacted in response to the recommendations of the National Commission and the threat of federalization. Yet, in its 1977 report to the President and Congress, the Policy Group of the Interdepartmental Workers' Compensation Task Force concluded:

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Medicolegal News , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , April 1980 , pp. 7 - 9
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980

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