About the Staff of Workers' Compensation Policy Review and the Website  

John F. Burton, Jr. is the Editor of the Workers’ Compensation Policy Review.  John Burton is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) at Rutgers University.  He is a member of the Executive Board of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) and is also a member of the NASI Workers’ Compensation Steering Committee.  Burton previously served as Dean of SMLR and as a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Chicago.  He has a law degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

John Burton has conducted research, served as a consultant, and assisted with the formulation of public policy for many years.  He was the Chair of the National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws, which submitted its report to the President and Congress in 1972.  He has served as a consultant to a number of jurisdictions, including Florida, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, and Ontario.  His book with Monroe Berkowitz, Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers’ Compensation, received the Kulp Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association.  Burton was President of the Industrial Relations Research Association in 2002.  He also was the editor of John Burton’s Workers’ Compensation Monitor from 1988 to 1997.  (He has had no connection with Workers’ Compensation Monitor subsequent to the July/August 1997 issue.)

For a full resume for John Burton, click here.

Florence Blum is Production Coordinator for the website and for the Workers’ Compensation Policy Review.  She has a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers College and served as Production Coordinator of John Burton’s Workers’ Compensation Monitor from 1994 until 1997.