From the original opposition to Social Security in the 1930s, through the controversy over the 2005 privatization proposals of George W. Bush, and now extending to the current Social Security debate and the so-called Bowles-Simpson proposal, the basic function of Social Security has been...

This essay performs a close analysis of workers’ compensation coverage of COVID-19 and arrives at the conclusion that it should not be “impossible” to prove in a legal sense that an employee’s COVID-19 was caused by work. Scientific proof is not the same as legal proof: workers’...

This paper discusses the increased use of causation presumptions in workers' compensation cases involving firefighters and other first responders. It also considers increasing workers' compensation coverage of post traumatic stress disorder with respect to those same categories of workers.The...

The World Trade Center tragedy will prove the greatest challenge that has yet confronted the US workers' compensation system. The horrible and catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 were never contemplated in the legislative crafting of our nation's social, remedial insurance paradigm. Amid...

El sistema de compensación del daño derivado de accidente de trabajo y enfermedad profesional es especialmente complejo, en cuanto implica la coordinación de cuatro instrumentos indemnizatorios del daño: prestaciones de la Seguridad Social, mejoras voluntarias, recargo de prestaciones e...

This article reports on a study of the legal and policy framework governing access, in Canada, to workers’ compensation benefits for workers who are work disabled because of mental health problems attributed to stressful working conditions and events. It also provides a brief description of...

While the Federal expanded benefits are ending for many workers on Labor Day, Workers’ Compensation Benefits are still available for those workers who have been exposed to COVID at work and contract disease and remain ill from Long COVID. Workers’ Compensation Benefits (Temporary, Medical,...

This article describes Wisconsin worker's compensation law determining whether a workplace accident or occupational disease "arises out of employment." An accident, which occurs at one point of time, or a disease, which occurs over a period of time, may cause injury in innumerable ways; for...

We estimate the effects of the implementation of a compulsory work injury insurance in Sweden in 1978 on compensating wage differentials. This involves two steps. First, we investigate if there are compensating wage differentials on the Swedish labor market and second, we assess if these were...