Paper Looks for Comp to Focus More on Return to Work

Dr. Jennifer Christian thinks workers’ compensation is not doing enough to prevent injured workers from becoming disabled and exiting the workforce — and she’s calling on the federal government to help. Christian is proposing a shift in workers’ compensation, disability insurance and other pieces of the “Social Security net” that is meant to steer people back into the workforce after they’ve been injured. Her ideas are bubbling up through a collaboration with the U.S. Office of Disability Employment Policy, which commissioned her and two other experts...