What Can We Do?

Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Karmel

Chapter Six asks whether we have done everything possible to keep Americans safe at work. The answers to that question are a discussion of common sense reforms that if implemented will make Americans safer at work. But, anticipating the anti-regulatory arguments from self-described free marketers, Chapter Six first rebuts these arguments championed by conservative think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Mercatus Center, and funded by Charles and David Koch, among others.Thereafter, Chapter Six discusses how reforming the workers compensation system, enhancing the penalties and criminal provisions in the OSHAct, criminally prosecuting employers like Don Blankenship, regulatory reform and more local worker safety laws will help keep Americans safer at work.

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Steven D. Feinberg

Abstract This article describes special aspects of addressing and defining substantial medical evidence, causation, and apportionment in the California Workers' Compensation system. Substantial medical evidence is framed in terms of reasonable medical probability, and the opinion must be based on fact and not be speculative. The issue of whether the injury occurred in the course of employment is left to the Trier of Fact (WCAB judge). The issue of arising out of employment is a medical issue left to the physician. Apportionment applies to both the industrial and nonindustrial cause of the disability.


Author(s):  
Syed S. Islam ◽  
Athmaram M. Nambiar ◽  
Edward J. Doyle ◽  
Angela M. Velilla ◽  
Radha S. Biswas ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 547-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. K. Dunning ◽  
K. G. Davis ◽  
S. E. Kotowski ◽  
T. Elliott ◽  
G. Jewell ◽  
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