NCCI: Cost Impacts of Disease Presumption Laws Remain Unclear

As firefighter disease presumption laws continue to expand across the nation, the long-term costs of the measures remain largely unknown, according to an analysis from the National Council on Compensation Insurance. “You might think that these presumptions would increase the number of claims and the overall cost of workers’ compensation to the system. And you would be correct,” Fawn Racicot and Bruce Spidell said in an NCCI article this month. “But just how many additional claims and how much extra cost is a tough thing to predict.” One issue is that many firefi...