Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers' Compensation Paul L. Burgess and Jerry L. Kingston First Chapter | Table of Contents 440 pp. 1987 $25.00 paper 978-0-88099-050-9 Berkowitz and Burton provide a detailed examination of the adequacy and equity of permanent partial disability benefits, and the efficiency of the system delivering those benefits. A ten-state study is presented that examines states' criteria for awarding scheduled and nonscheduled benefits. Three of those states are then used for a wage-loss study illustrating the relationship among workers' disability ratings, the workers' WC benefits, and losses of earnings caused by work-related injuries. "Industrial relations specialists who want a description of how the U.S. WC system determines permanent disability payments should own (this book)." –Industrial and Labor Relations Review |