Comp Industry About to Get Own 'Future Shock'

ORLANDO, Florida — Dramatic societal factors outside the control of workers’ compensation stakeholders will alter the grand bargain, posing challenges to the 110-year old truce between workers and employers that America’s increasingly dysfunctional political system will be incapable of adequately addressing. That’s the dire prediction of the soon-to-be-published book, “Workers’ Compensation: Scenarios 2030,” praised by a panel at the Workers' Compensation Institute’s annual educational conference for raising important questions even as t...