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Trends in earning losses and workers’ compensation replacement in California will be among topics discussed Friday, Aug. 24 at a public hearing in San Francisco by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. at the Civic Center Complex, 455 Golden Gate Ave., Auditorium B-100.

Also on the agenda will be the topics, "A Briefing on the CHSWC Study on Return-to-Work by RAND" and "Earning Losses and Compensation for Permanent Disability in California and Four Other States." Speakers will be Robert T. Reville, PhD, research director for RAND Institute for Civil Justice, and Edward M. Welch, director, Workers’ Compensation, Michigan State University.

Other topics will include, "Report on Policies and Strategies to Help Injured Workers Return to Sustained Employment" with Juliann Sum, JD, MS, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley; "Report on the CHSWC Roundtable on Workers’ Compensation Anti-Fraud Activities" with Thomas J. McBirnie, CHSWC consultant; and "Report on the Hospital Fee Schedule Study" with Gerald Kominski, PhD, Center for Health Research, UCLA, and Laura Gardner, MD, PhD.

According to an abstract concerning Reville’s report, "The labor-market consequences of disability can include job loss, reduced income, earlier retirement, and greater reliance on private and social insurance systems to provide income." The authors examined the labor-market consequences of work-related disabling injuries and their relationship to the age of injured workers in California and other states.

They also reported estimates of the adequacy of income benefits received for the injuries from WC. The authors presented evidence that older workers suffer proportionately more injuries with permanently disabling consequences, and the losses suffered by older workers are greater, on average, than those of younger workers. They also found that injury-related non-employment is higher among older workers and, moreover, the older workers in the states that were studied appear to recover a smaller proportion of their losses from WC than do other injured workers.