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Feb 17, 2025

Mental Health Support for First Responders Provided Outside of California's Workers' Compensation System

We examined alternatives to workers’ compensation (WC) for treating psychiatric injuries for first responders by conducting 15 interviews across 5 California departments contracted with non-WC mental health providers.
Nov 2, 2023

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Aug 24, 2023

Exploring Alternative Health Care Payment Models for California’s Workers’ Compensation System: Alternatives, Recommendations, and Next Steps

Researchers considered possible alternative payment models for use in the California workers’ compensation (WC) system, including discussion of the unique constraints and factors embedded within the California WC environment.
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Jul 31, 2023

Alternative Payment Models for California's Workers' Compensation System: A Review of Issues and Possible Next Steps

The authors consider possible alternative payment models for use in the California workers' compensation (WC) system, including discussion of the unique constraints and factors embedded within the California WC environment.
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Nov 18, 2022

The Quality of Occupational Healthcare for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Healthcare Expenditures, and Disability Outcomes: A Prospective Observational Study

We sought to examine whether quality of care for work-associated carpal tunnel syndrome is associated with healthcare expenditures or disability. Quality of care was associated with health care expenditures, but not with disability.
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Oct 19, 2022

Do Temporary Workers Experience Additional Employment and Earnings Risk After Workplace Injuries?

We find large and persistent earnings and employment losses after workplace injury for temporary workers over and above losses for direct-hire workers at the same job. Workers' compensation benefits reduce, but do not eliminate, this income loss.
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Sep 23, 2022

The Demand for Insurance and Rationale for a Mandate: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Insurance

Workers' compensation insurance is mandatory in nearly all states. We use data from a unique market without a coverage mandate to estimate the demand for workers' comp insurance. Our analysis suggests that several forms of market failure may not justify a mandate.
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Aug 24, 2022

Explaining Heterogeneity in Use of Non-wage Benefits: The Role of Worker and Firm Characteristics in Disability Accommodations

Using administrative data in Oregon, we document significant dispersion in accommodation rates across workers and firms. We decompose the variance in accommodation use, finding that firm characteristics explain 29% of this variance.
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May 26, 2022

COVID-19's Impacts on California's Workers' Compensation System: Evaluating the Effects of Senate Bill 1159

The authors evaluated the effects of COVID-19 claims on the California workers' compensation system and on the payment of workers' compensation benefits, noting patterns created by the presumptions established by Senate Bill 1159.
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Feb 4, 2022

Worker and Employer Experiences with COVID-19 and the California Workers' Compensation System: A Review of the Literature

We conducted a literature review on worker and employer experiences surrounding COVID-19 and worker's compensation, adhering to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.
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Feb 3, 2022

Earnings Losses and Benefit Adequacy in California's Workers' Compensation System: Estimates for 2005–2017 Injury Dates

This final report in a series is part of an effort to monitor wage losses of injured workers in the California workers' compensation system between 2013 and 2017. It updates estimates of trends in earnings losses reported in the interim reports.
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Jan 11, 2022

COVID-19 and Workers' Compensation: Considerations for Policymakers

The authors examine how and why policymakers have extended workers' compensation benefits to employees who are required to work outside the home during the COVID-19 pandemic and pose questions to help policymakers meet future public health crises.

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Mental Health Support for First Responders Provided Outside of California's Workers' Compensation System

RAND Institute for Civil Justice

Exploring Alternative Health Care Payment Models for California’s Workers’ Compensation System: Alternatives, Recommendations, and Next Steps

Alternative Payment Models for California's Workers' Compensation System: A Review of Issues and Possible Next Steps

The Quality of Occupational Healthcare for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Healthcare Expenditures, and Disability Outcomes: A Prospective Observational Study

Do Temporary Workers Experience Additional Employment and Earnings Risk After Workplace Injuries?

The Demand for Insurance and Rationale for a Mandate: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Insurance

Explaining Heterogeneity in Use of Non-wage Benefits: The Role of Worker and Firm Characteristics in Disability Accommodations

COVID-19's Impacts on California's Workers' Compensation System: Evaluating the Effects of Senate Bill 1159

Worker and Employer Experiences with COVID-19 and the California Workers' Compensation System: A Review of the Literature

Earnings Losses and Benefit Adequacy in California's Workers' Compensation System: Estimates for 2005–2017 Injury Dates

COVID-19 and Workers' Compensation: Considerations for Policymakers

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Mental Health Support for First Responders Provided Outside of California's Workers' Compensation System

RAND Institute for Civil Justice

Exploring Alternative Health Care Payment Models for California’s Workers’ Compensation System: Alternatives, Recommendations, and Next Steps

Alternative Payment Models for California's Workers' Compensation System: A Review of Issues and Possible Next Steps

The Quality of Occupational Healthcare for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Healthcare Expenditures, and Disability Outcomes: A Prospective Observational Study

Do Temporary Workers Experience Additional Employment and Earnings Risk After Workplace Injuries?

The Demand for Insurance and Rationale for a Mandate: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Insurance

Explaining Heterogeneity in Use of Non-wage Benefits: The Role of Worker and Firm Characteristics in Disability Accommodations

COVID-19's Impacts on California's Workers' Compensation System: Evaluating the Effects of Senate Bill 1159

Worker and Employer Experiences with COVID-19 and the California Workers' Compensation System: A Review of the Literature

Earnings Losses and Benefit Adequacy in California's Workers' Compensation System: Estimates for 2005–2017 Injury Dates

COVID-19 and Workers' Compensation: Considerations for Policymakers

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