Mental health is the next frontier for workers’ compensation
“Originally, workers’ compensation was fundamentally about traumatic injuries in the workplace,” says Mark Walls, Chief Marketing Officer at Safety National, and Founder at Work Comp Analysis Group. Walls, who has over two decades of experience in the workers’ compensation field, adding that “over time, you saw that start to change as occupational diseases came into play. That was an add-in to workers’ compensation that recognized that there were certain exposures in the workplace that could lead to diseases that could take years to manifest. More and more states now recognize repetitive trauma claims, which tend to occur gradually over time, and create wear and tear on the body.”
