Experts here warned that workers' compensation systems face impacts from a variety of factors, ranging from bed bugs and Iraq war injuries to beryllium dust and language difficulties.
The coming challenges were outlined at a session of the Workers' Compensation Educational Conference by Jennifer Tomlin, senior vice president at Zurich North America, and Robert P. Hartwig, senior vice president and chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute. The session was one of seven on national trends put on by The National Underwriter Company as part of its partnership with the Florida Workers' Compensation Institute, which runs the WCEC program.
In addition to the injury causes already resulting in claims, they also issued cautions about nanotechnology and bird flu.
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