Derek Jones, Chairman of the Workers’ Compensation Committee, presented on the committee's issue brief, Navigating Workers’ Compensation and Medical Marijuana, during the National Council of Insurance Legislator's Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH.
( )The Workers' Compensation Committee released an issue brief providing an overview of medical marijuana laws and court cases—and the impact they have on the workers’ compensation system—to help actuaries navigate the complicated legal landscape.
( )Workers' Compensation Committee issue brief discussing the growing importance of telehealth for workers' compensation insurers, variations across different states, and opportunities for the actuarial profession to help all parties involved better direct their efforts and maximize the return of any telehealth initiatives.
( )Workers' Compensation Committee issue brief on potential impacts to injured workers, employers and insurers involved in the opioid epidemic, and explores the effects on these stakeholders before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
( )Issue brief from the Workers' Compensation Committee rdiscussing the recent actions of state governments, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to expand their presumption laws to include additional diseases/injuries experienced during employment, but also to whom the presumptions apply.
( )Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting letter offering comments on the California Department of Insurance’s proposed changes to reporting requirements for large deductibles in workers’ compensation plans. (
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Workers’ Compensation Committee discussion of comparisons between states of workers’ comp rates. (
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Workers' Compensation Committee comment letter to California's Offfice of Self-Insured Plans regarding guidance on actuarial reports on self-insured workers' compensation plans. (
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Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) comments to the NAIC’s Statutory Principles (E) Working Group on the proposed Clarification of Accounting Treatment for Fees Incurred for Salvage/Subrogation Recoveries. (
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Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) comments to the NAIC/IAIABC Joint (C) Working Group on the 2015 Workers’ Compensation Large Deductible Study draft. (
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Terrorism Risk Insurance Subcommittee comments to NAIC’s Blanks Working Group on its terrorism risk insurance supplement and instructions draft.
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COPLFR comment letter to the California Office of Self Insurance Plans concerning proposed final regulations on the state’s workers’ compensation self-insurance plans. (
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Workers' Compensation Subcommittee comments on the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation investigation of relationships between workers' compensation and group health care. (
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Workers' Compensation Subcommittee comments on a New York state workers' compensation bill that would, among other provisions, prohibit data sharing. (
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Workers’ Compensation Subcommittee comments to the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions on proposed self-insured workers' comp loss reporting forms. (
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Workers’ Compensation Subcommittee comments to NCOIL about a proposed model law concerning professional employer organizations and workers' comp insurance. (
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Workers' Compensation Subcommittee letter expressing concern about a Senate asbestos bill's effects on the workers' compensation system. (
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Extreme Events Committee comments on a Treasury Department study of TRIA, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. (
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Workers' Compensation Subcommittee comments in response to a Federal Register request by the Treasury Department for comments on implementation of Title I of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 and the related April 15, 2003 Interim Final Rule. (
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Workers' Compensation Subcommittee issue brief addressing medical privacy in the workers' compensation system. (
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