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Unconventional threats to the workers' compensation system aremultiplying, ranging from Medicare set-aside hassles, torecession-related challenges, to employer's liabilitycomplications, experts warned at an industry conference here.

Conflicts with Medicare are a particularly vexing problem forworkers' comp carriers when older workers are hurt, or whenlongtime injured employees become eligible for the program,according to Katie Fox, compliance and resolution manager for MSPMed Insights, a GAB Robins company.

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