The Future Of Workers Compensation Claim Systems

Systems designed to address and administer employee injuries have played a substantive role as part of our social safety net for over a century.

Originally labeled the "grand bargain," untold millions of injured workers have relied on the system’s reliability to underpin their recovery from on-the-job injuries.

This "bargain," and the generally similar design of statutory workers compensation systems (unique to each US state) have persisted and served employers and their injured employees well even in the midst of significant social and economic crisis and change, technological evolutions, conflict, and peacetime and other forces that can disrupt system effectiveness.

The vast majority of injured workers have received fair treatment, were compensated equitably, and returned to productive employment, all enabled by reasonably balanced and effective systems.