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Understanding Workers' Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs [Paperback]

John W. Valente (Author)
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June 30, 2006
Across America, businesses both large and small continue to confront the rising costs of workers compensation insurance. Workplace injuries can be avoided and their impact on a company and on the injured worker can be minimized.

In Understanding Workers' Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs John W. Valente, J.D., explains the basics of workers' compensation and outlines strategies for taking some of the aggravation out of the process. While not providing legal advice, Mr. Valente reviews the cost of workers' compensation, the anatomy of the claim, litigation effect on the workplace, workplace safety concerns, investigation of workplace accidents and returning the injured worker to work. This book gives valuable insight into the world of workplace injuries, a world that many enter into but few understand. This book provides information that allows the business owner, manager, human resources professional or supervisor to begin the internal discussion of how to manage workplace injuries.

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  • Paperback: 118 pages
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing (June 30, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1412073383
  • ISBN-13: 978-1412073387
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for every business!, February 10, 2007
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This review is from: Understanding Workers' Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs (Paperback)
Most people would agree that the workers' compensation process, by its design, is complicated, incomprehensible and dry. But attorney/author John W. Valente has creatively and effectively mapped the statutory minefield into a navigable, user-friendly guide that is accessible to any business owner.
For that very reason, every business person and human resources director should have a copy of John W. Valente's "Understanding Workers' Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs" (Trafford, 2006) at their fingertips.
In just over 100 pages, Valente, one of Vermont's top workers' compensation defense lawyers, uses anecdotes, humor and easy-to-understand examples to demonstrate why a business needs to think about workers' compensation laws, while providing common-sense tools and procedures necessary to make the workplace as safe as it can be.
"Understanding Workers' Compensation" is a prudent crash course in what workers' compensation is and why it's necessary in the business world.
This easy-to-use book provides a primer on workers' compensation's statutory history and explains, in startling clarity despite its potentially dense subject matter, how injuries can drive what an employer pays for insurance coverage.
And while Valente explains the workers' compensation process and the myriad liabilities along the way, he uses "layman's language" to decode a mountain of information and debunk the myth that workers' compensation only is understandable to a few.
In different examples, Valente describes how uncontrolled workers' compensation claims all have a negative effect on a business's insurance premiums, morale, productivity and, ultimately, profits.
Yet, by walking the business owner through the potential pitfalls, Valente is able to make the "unfamiliar, sometimes scary and occasionally contentious" process less stressful for an injured worker and the employer.
What gives this book added value is Valente's comprehensive effort to break down what businesses need to do to prevent workplace injuries. It is information that will ultimately lead to cost-savings, he writes.
"Understanding the latest return-to-work strategies is important. Get the knowledge. Manage your claims. Don't let your claims manage you."
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