tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post7179002316663358558..comments2023-11-13T11:54:56.769-08:00Comments on DePaolo's World: Despite Costs Work Comp has ValueAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446191842560064784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-15569045071067287482013-04-27T02:53:59.361-07:002013-04-27T02:53:59.361-07:00Meanwhile, a recently passed 2% cap on property ta...Meanwhile, a recently passed 2% cap on property taxes significantly restricts the municipalities' ability to raise revenue to meet the cost increases, according to the report from the Public Employer Risk Management Assn. Inc.'s Workers' Compensation Policy Institute.<br /><a href="http://www.compmanwc.com/" rel="nofollow">more information</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01592362865100633946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-24468540319478665522012-08-03T04:58:52.090-07:002012-08-03T04:58:52.090-07:00Thanks for the comments Jon - thought provoking.Thanks for the comments Jon - thought provoking.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446191842560064784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-33299474724009531452012-08-01T11:59:01.402-07:002012-08-01T11:59:01.402-07:00With medical costs exceeding 60% of the losses pai...With medical costs exceeding 60% of the losses paid, I would anticipate that is it a "when," not "if" situation, that will ultimately result in an overhaul of the system. The piecemeal attempts, or prototypes, just haven't cut it yet.<br /><br />Labor wants medical care for the employees that works and it not loaded with delay and litigation. How can you argue with that. The mechanism of an employer-based program with partial employee contribution is rapidly eroding. The universal system is a potential goal, but then the cost (including contribution costs) is problematic.<br /><br />As to Industry’s hot and cold love affair with the exclusivity of remedy provisions and indemnity payments, history has show that you just can't stop creative lawyers from filing tort claims. The asbestos epidemic continues to prove that as claims against the ultimate wrongdoers just propagate. <br /><br />David is correct. The system just doesn't deliver and met anyone's expectations, and only fuels collateral cottage industries that sap its lifeblood. <br /><br />In the end, what we have seen maybe not at all describe what we are going to get as a replacement. <br /><br />Gerry observantly reflects that alternative approaches have been offered with little interest on the state level. Likewise, the Federal government has, and continues to test, alternate compensation protocols without a definitive plan that makes everyone happy. <br /><br />Creative minds will necessitate invention of a program that works. Continued emasculation of the present workers' compensation really helps no one. Constructively participating in ideas to create a new system is a far better effort. I am optimistic that it will occur.Jon L. Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17524773211406148442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-915502129678223422012-07-27T16:33:30.057-07:002012-07-27T16:33:30.057-07:00Alas Bill, I think that most employers choose not ...Alas Bill, I think that most employers choose not to be...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446191842560064784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-35841875905096528762012-07-27T15:42:20.093-07:002012-07-27T15:42:20.093-07:00David,
There has always been a tension between La...David,<br /><br />There has always been a tension between Labor and Management - don't get me started on Capital and Labor.<br /><br />It is a relationship that neither party (as a collective) have taken the time to think the whole process through. <br /><br />The tension exists because the issues haven't been thought out and (for both sides), it is an emotional rather than rational reaction to the realities.<br /><br />Frankly, it is the American Consumer, not the employer, that ought to be complaining about the costs of work comp. The employers (again, collectively) will simply pass the costs on to them. Yes, there will be employers that are better at doing that than others. Those that can't will be the victims of this Darwinan version of 'Survival of the Fittest'.<br /><br />I spent two days in an Life Spring seminar on 'getting your shit together'. The moderator kept saying, 'Your feelings don't matter, and it doesn't matter that you don't matter'. We had people in the room that were in a Rage - foaming at the mouth. They wanted it to be important that they mattered.<br /><br />Of all the really big problems out there, workers' comp is one of the least important. And, it isn't important that it isn't important. Employers already have all the tools in place to make this small piece of their daily activities better. <br /><br />Someone (you, perhaps?) needs to inform them of the realities and let them know they really are in charge. Unless, of course, they chose not to be.billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16030231757371541081noreply@blogger.com