Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2002
SSRN Electronic JournalPublished 1 January 2004Open access
Cecili Thompson Williams, Virginia P. Reno, John Burton
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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2010 is the fifteenth in a series begun by the National Academy of Social Insurance to provide the only comprehensive national data on this largely state-run program.
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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2002 is the seventh in a series begun by the National Academy of Social Insurance to provide the only comprehensive national data on this largely state-run program. The study provides estimates of workers' compensation payments - cash and medical - for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and federal program providing workers' compensation.
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