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Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices

06/13/2004 | Requests *

Summary

First illustrating the US workers’ compensation system, this article continues to detail worker’s compensation programs and how they function. A historical overview and the basic objective of worker’s compensation laws are also reviewed. The article ends with a discussion of issues, challenges, and promising practices.

Author

Flanagan, M.P.H., Susan A.

Available Files

Appendicies Word (1,309K, 36 pages)
Tables Word (1,122K, 101 pages)
Tables PDF (396K, 101 pages)
Report Word (359K, 73 pages)
Report PDF (261K, 73 pages)

Keywords

Wages and Benefits; Cash and Counseling; workers’ compensation; workers’ compensation insurance; consumer employed personal assistance service workers; workers’ compensation laws; how workers' compensation programs work; insurance markets that provide workers' compensation insurance; employment classification systems; workers’ compensation rates and premiums; promising practices

Topic

Consumer/Participant Direction

Type/Tool

Assessments, Promising practices, Reports

Source

NRCPDS

State

Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, All States/Territories

Date Created

01/03/2010

Contact

Elizabeth Maguire
National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services

elizabeth.maguire.1@bc.edu
617-552-0562

Short URL

www.hcbs.org/moreInfo.php/doc/2779

Permission to use any element of this document should be obtained by the above named contact person. Always name the originator as the source of this material.

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