In a recent Emerging Issues Analysis, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant Teddy Snyder shared her expert advice on why, when, and how parties to a workers' compensation case should settle. The author writes: Unlike liability cases that have...

This commentary provides a state-by-state survey of key workers' compensation legislation from June to December 2008. Governors in California, Hawaii, New York, and South Carolina provided an extra level of action related to workers compensation law. Things...

Workers' compensation is a mechanism for providing cash-wage benefits and medical care to victims of work-connected injuries and for placing the cost of these injuries ultimately on the consumer through the medium of insurance, the premiums for which are...

Situation: In most corporations, workers’ compensation claims are managed by the human resources, insurance or risk management departments. At McDonald’s, workers’ compensation costs have been reduced significantly by moving oversight of...