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Workers comp to feel effects of health reform

16 December 2009

Attendees at the annual Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) meeting have been warned that with or without healthcare reform, changes in the medical landscape will have a big effect on workers compensation insurers – both positive and negative.

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Attendees at the annual Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) meeting have been warned that with or without healthcare reform, changes in the medical landscape will have a big effect on workers compensation insurers – both positive and negative.

Speaking at the meeting, Joseph Paduda, principal of Health Strategy Associates, noted that a number of pre-reform measures have already started to have an effect on workers compensation.

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