Workers’ comp professionals are seeing delayed recovery as an increased challenge in claims – as injured employees may not be progressing along a medically reasonable and expected time frame. However, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly why the delay is occurring in order to address the issue. We may believe the injured employee is simply not complying with treatment and malingering.
In 2020, the workers’ compensation industry has faced no shortage of challenges—treatment gaps, delays in elective surgeries, the shift to work-from-home, an onslaught of emergency regulations and more. Now, as we look ahead to the new year, Mitchell, Genex and Coventry experts share workers’ compensation trends we think will continue, change and shift. Here are our 2021 workers’ compensation predictions.
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