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Workers Comp and Wellness: Partners at a Distance

By Jon Coppelman

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Bill Thorness has written an interesting article for NCCI on the relationship of wellness programs to workers comp costs. In some respects, it involves a "duh" thesis: wellness programs can significantly lower comp costs, because healthy workers are less prone to injury and, once injured, recover more quickly than their out-of-shape co-workers. Conversely, obese and out-of-shape workers are more at...

Full post as published by Workers Comp Insider on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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