Talk:Workers' compensation

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[edit] Countries other than U.S.

Workers'compensation laws exist in plenty of jurisdictions outside of the US. This article really needs to be seperated into a general section covering the concept, and then comments on any interesting features of these laws in particular countries. -- Pde 02:36, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I agree that the article needs to be revised to a worldwide view, but no one (myself included) has the time or money to do the massive amount of necessary research. Very few lawyers are experts on both workers' compensation law and comparative international law; the few lawyers with the language skills necessary for international law (I'm not in this category) find contracts and litigation to be much more financially rewarding than workers' comp. --Coolcaesar 16:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Firing claimants (in U.S.)

It's not always against the law to fire someone for filing a comp. claim. For instance Georgia is very clear on that point: there is no exception to the "at will" employment doctrine in this regard. However it's still regarded as unwise to fire someone with a pending claim as that creates a presumption that the claimant is not rehabilitatable. (is that a word?) Ellsworth 17:22, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Workers Comp Insurance MERGER

I think it is worth merging this article, as they are both very closely related. Any other views? Abcdefghijklm 17:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Is there a difference in definition that results in both Maryland and Wisconsin being cited (in different sections) as being the "first" state to have it?

[edit] The Apostrophe

Anybody want to debate omitting the apostrophe? ActuarialFellow 23:09, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Why would we? Every source I've seen spells it as "workers' compensation." See also the Division of Workers' Compensation of the California Department of Industrial Relations.[1] Wikipedia policy is to be descriptive, not prescriptive. See the big four Wikipedia core policies at WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:NOT. --Coolcaesar 23:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I know Wiki policy, thank you. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) dropped the apostrophe a long while back, so there's a significant source you might not be familiar with. About half the independent rating bureaus (including California) use it, half don't. AM Best does, Business Insurance doesn't. I'm sure the list goes on and on. ActuarialFellow 16:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Right, but keeping the apostrophe is grammatically correct. It shows the "possessive" aspect of workers' compensation, in that the compensation is something that workers are entitled to. Dropping the apostrophe creates bad English which is difficult to grammatically analyze (that is, then you just have two consecutive nouns). --Coolcaesar 03:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I side with keeping the apostrophe. – 2*6 06:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

"Workers" (no apostrophe) is correct as a plural adjective. The singular form, "worker compensation," works the same way. I favor no apostrophe, which is a gramatically correct form of the term. Mjeane 16:33, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citations desperately needed

This article needs citations badly. Please focus on finding and adding specific citations to back up the many, many unsupported specific claims. Who am I talking to, you ask? YOU! and all of us! Thanks! NuclearWinner 23:21, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

USERRA. Go talk to Serra, as you have nothing important to say here.--76.212.156.175 (talk) 13:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
This article is such a mess (we have one part saying that workers' comp laws started in the U.S. in 1902 and another part saying that they started in 1911). Unfortunately, most workers' comp attorneys are too busy with their huge caseloads to fix this article. And I don't practice workers' comp, so it would take me way too much time to study it to the point where I could rewrite this pigpen. --Coolcaesar (talk) 02:17, 10 May 2008 (UTC)