All 50 States' and D.C.'s Home Pages and Workers' Compensation Agencies
Alliance Canadienne des Victimes d'Accidents et de Maladies du Travail
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Injured Workers (Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1997)
California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
California Industrial Medical Council (California Department of Industrial Relations)
Canadian Council for the Rights of Injured Workers
Canadian Injured Workers Alliance
The Chain Never Stops American slaughterhouses are grinding out meat faster than ever -- and the production line keeps moving, even when the workers are maimed by the machinery. (Mother Jones, July/August 2001)
Deadlines Draw Near for Filing Ground Zero-Related Compensation Claims (New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, September 2003)
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act of 2000; List of Covered Facilities (U.S. Department of Energy)
Federal Employees' Compensation Act Questions and Answers (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration)
Guide to Common Workers' Compensation Terms (New York State Insurance Fund)
Guide to Workers' Compensation on the Web (Labor Research
Association)
How Many Injured Workers do not File Claims for Workers' Compensation Benefits? In this study, 40 percent (American Journal of Industrial Medicine, November 2002)
The Illusion of Efficiency in Workers' Compensation "Reform"Introduction to Martha T. McCluskey's ground-breaking 1998 Rutgers Law Review article
Industrial Disease: The Quest for Recognition --The Need for Adequate Benefits (New Jersey Law Journal, 1990)
Injured Workers 4 Change
Injured Workers' Alliance  A grassroots organization of "injured workers, their families, and concerned Oregonians."
Injured Workers of New York (Statewide, non-profit support and advocacy group for injured workers)
Insult to Injury: Benefits in doubt, Debilitating delays, Legal limits, Restoring benefits (Santa Rosa, Calif., Press Democrat, 1997)
International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
Job Accomodation Network (West Virginia University)
John Burton's Workers' Compensation Resources
Maine Injured Workers Association  ("Chemically Injured Workers Ignored, Disenfranchised and Thrown Away")
New York City Department of Law Workers' Compensation Division: Action Needed to Improve the Administration and Management of the Workers' Compensation Program (New York State Office of the State Comptroller, 1995)
New York State Consolidated Workers' Compensation Laws Click on "Laws of New York," then scroll down to "WKC" (New York State Legislature)
New York State Workers’ Compensation: How Big Is the Coverage Shortfall? Employer non-compliance with the state’s workers’ compensation program is a growing problem in New York. Many companies fail to provide this coverage for their workers. This deprives the workers of coverage and limits the insurance pool of workers covered, in turn increasing the premium costs for other employers and shifting the costs of medical care for injured workers to the injured workers themselves, taxpayers and other employers.(Fiscal Policy Institute, January 2007)
New York State Workers' Compensation Board
NIOSH Office of Compensation Analysis and Support OCAS conducts activities to assist claimants and support the role of the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
NYCOSH Workers Compensation Program - 2007
Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (United Kingdom)
Occupational Disease and Workers’ Compensation: Coverage, Costs, and Consequences (Milbank Quarterly, 2004)
Occupational Disease in Connecticut, 2001 (Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission)
Occupational Disease in Connecticut, 2002 (Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission)
Occupational Disease in Connecticut, 2003 (Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission)
Off the Job Injury or Illness: A Guide to New York State Disability Benefits (NYS Workers' Compensation Board)
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment Services Administration)
On the Job Injury: An Employee's Guide to New York State Workers' Compensation Benefits (NYS Workers' Compensation Board)
RSI Support/Injured Worker Groups (CTD Resource Network)
Texas Research and Oversight Council on Workers' Compensation
U.S. Workers' Compensation Law (Cornell University Law School)
Unjust Treatment: ‘Independent' Medical Examinations & Workers' Compensation in New York State (NY State AFL-CIO and NYCOSH)
Voters Injured at Work (California)
Work-Related Injuries and Fatalities: What You and Your Family Need to Know About Your Benefits An official summary of the types of payments that Federal employees who are injured, or survivors of employees who die because of job-related illness or injury, may be eligible to receive because of the Federal employment. (United States Office of Personnel Management, 1997)
Workers' Comp (Martindale-Hubbell)
Workers' Comp Insider
Workers' Compensation Guidebook (Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California at Berkeley, 2005)
Workers' Compensation: An Overview (Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute)
Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 1999 New Estimates and 1996-1998 Revisions This 68-page report analyzes the steady 7-year drop in workers' compensation benefits relative to covered wages, and the 6-year reduction of employer costs. It presents national data for 1999, including benefit payments by state, by type of insurer, and more medical care and cash benefits separately. It also provides estimates of how many people are covered by workers' compensation, including state-level estimates of the number of covered workers and total covered wages. (National Academy of Social Insurance, May 2001)
Workers' Compensation: Collectively Bargained Approaches (Committee to Protect Workers' Rights)
Workers' Compensation Health Initiative (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Workers' Compensation Law Library (Findlaw)
Workers' Compensation Page (AFL-CIO)
Workers Injury Law & Advocacy Group
Workers Rights to Compensation (Office of New York State Attorney General)
Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group

Study Says Many Firms Cheat New York Workers’ Comp System — A new study estimates that employers cheat New York State’s workers’ compensation system by not paying $500 million to $1 billion a year in required insurance premiums, forcing other employers to pay higher premiums. The study by the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group, found that these illegal underpayments represent 15 percent to 20 percent of all the workers’ comp premiums that are supposed to be paid each year statewide.(New York Times, January 25, 2007)

Plan to Overhaul Workers' Compensation Puts Focus on Cap Issues — Lose a big toe on the job in New York, and you are eligible for as much as $400 a week for 38 weeks. Lose a foot, and you can collect up to $400 for 205 weeks. But a back injury? That's priceless - or at least timeless, which is to say that you can collect workers' compensation payments for the rest of your life. New York's workers' compensation system has enough peculiarities to ruffle everybody's feathers. Business groups say the system's main flaw is that payments for certain kinds of injuries, including head and back injuries, are not limited in duration as they are in many states, so you can collect lifetime payments. But unions say the system is not generous enough, since it caps payments at $400 a week, rather than at two-thirds of the state's average weekly wage as in many other states, which would be about $630 in New York. (New York Times, December 19, 2005)

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