Dramatic Shift in Workforce Poses Challenge to Work Comp

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Workers' compensation regulators need to gear up for a stream of employees who pose higher risks because they're working through their 70s. Those were a couple of messages Kentucky's chief numbers cruncher, Ronald Crouch, fired off at the 92nd annual convention of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions on Wednesday. Crouch, director of the Kentucky State Data Center, introduced a series of charts that plot projected growth of the male populations versus the female populations in the United States and Canada through the year 2050 a...