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1.  Workers' Compensation in the United States:  A Primer, by John F. Burton, Jr.  This article was published in Perspectives on Work (The Magazine of the LERA), Summer 2007.

2. Compliance with the Essential Recommendations of the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws, 2004 

3. Compliance with the Essential Recommendations of the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws, 2003 

4. Compliance with the Essential Recommendations of the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws, 2002  

5.  Changes in Workers' Compensation Laws, 2004  by Glenn Whittington.  

6.  Changes in Workers' Compensation Laws, 2003  by Glenn Whittington.  This is a  7-page [PDF] report.

7.  Changes in Workers' Compensation Laws, 2002  by Glenn Whittington.  This is a  5-page [PDF] report.

8.  The Employers' Costs of Workers' Compensation Insurance in Ontario and Selected Other Canadian and U.S. Jurisdictions.  by Terry Thomason and John F. Burton, Jr. This Report is 130 pages long and has been broken into the following sections [PDF files] for quicker load time:

Contents and Preface (pages i-vii)

Introduction and Section I: Methodology for Measuring Employer' Costs (pages 1-17)

Section II: The Cost of Workers' Compensation in Ontario and Other Jurisdictions (pages 18-45)

Section III: Comparability of Cost Estimates Among Jurisdictions: Other Issues (pages 46-71)

Section IV: Delivery System Efficiency: Methodology and Variables (pages 72-87)

Section V: Delivery System Efficiency: Empirical Results (pages 88-108)

Section VI: Summary and Conclusions (pages 109-111)

References (pages 112-114)

Endnotes (pages 115-122)

Books: You can link to other websites to purchase the following books:

1. Worker' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, and John F. Burton, Jr. Order from Upjohn Institute at www.upjohninst.org (457 pp. $43 cloth ISBN 0-88099-218-2 / $25 paperback ISBN 0-88099-217-4 January 2001).