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Reforming insurance to support workers' rights to compensation

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Abstract

The structure and regulation of the insurance system for financing workers' compensation affects the costs of workers' benefits. Using the example of Maine's insurance market restructuring in response to a crisis of the early 1990s, this commentary explores how changes in insurance regulation might better support the goals of workers' compensation. The commentary analyzes how insurance and its regulation should go beyond correct pricing of risks to questions of how to structure incentives for loss control to include workers' interests as well as the interests of employers and insurers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)545-559
Number of pages15
JournalAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine
Volume55
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2012

Keywords

  • Human rights
  • Insurance
  • Loss control
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Regulation
  • Workers' compensation

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