NCCI Explores Marijuana Issues in Series of Articles

The National Council on Compensation Insurance is releasing a five-part series on marijuana and the workers’ compensation system. The first part of the series explores the issues surrounding the drug’s impact on workers’ compensation insurers. At least five states — Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey and New Mexico — have found that medical marijuana is a permissible workers’ compensation treatment that requires insurer reimbursement, the article says. Insurers are receiving more reimbursement requests for medical marijuana, but the substance ...