In Part Three of our Language of Workers’ Compensation series, we outline the leading challenges non-English speaking employees face when they get hurt on the job and how, as an employer, it’s critical that you put proactive practices in place to better support their recovery.

Each stakeholder comes from a different perspective, has different motivations and uses different language to talk about the injured worker and their injury. Here’s a brief rundown on the main players in an injured worker case.

To date, workers' compensation claims in NY (and a few other states) have utilized an alternate form in order to substantiate injury and treatment. The New York State Workers' Compensation Board has now updated the process of claims submission and is holding the workers' comp payers to the same electronic filing of claims for billing. Enter: the revised CMS-1500.