Workers' Compensation Information

The School of Human Resources and Labor Relations' Professional Development Program attempts to provide helpful up-to-date information about workers' compensation. We offer:

• Information about workers' compensation in each state

  • This is a table with links to the 50 State Workers' compensation agencies. Additional links are included for the District of Columbia, Federal employees and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Acts as well.

    In addition to link to the agencies' home pages we have attempted where possible to provide links to publications that best describes how the system works in each state. Unfortunately there is great variation in th quality of the publications that states make available

    While every attempt has been made to keep these links up-to-date, states are continually making changes to their sites. If you find links that are no longer valid please email moy@msu.edu.

• Medicare and workers' compensation

  • Recently a number of issues have arisen concerning the relationship between Medicare and Workers' Compensation. We offer here what we hope will be some helpful resources.

    Legislative Alert: Medicare Set-Asides (13KB, PDF)
    An overview of the Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreements Act of 2009 currently in committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

    Dealing with Medicare in Workers' Compensation Claims (76KB, PDF)
    An overview of this issue and some suggestions for how to deal with it.

    An Analysis of Workers' Compensation and Medicare (282KB, PDF)
    An analysis of the legal, practical, and political issues involved in this topic.

    Centers for Medicare and Medical Services
    A link to the web site of the Centers for Medicine and Medicaid Services that manages Medicare.

• An explanation of Permanent Partial Disability in all 51 jurisdictions

  • In our program for Certified Workers' Compensation Professionals we discuss the various ways of evaluating and compensating permanent partial disability (PPD). Here we provide an analysis of PPD benefits, a listing of the attributes of the state systems and a description of the shape of PPD in each state.

    Analysis of PPD Benefits (707KB, PDF)

    Table of PPD Attributes (13KB, PDF)

    State by State PPD Listing (1.60MB, PDF)

Questions regarding our programs should be directed to Melanie Zaremba at mzaremba@msu.edu.