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Best's Review: Obesity Is Weighing on Workers' Compensation Costs
June 20th, 2008
Best's Review's June cover story "A Weighty Issue," reports how the increasing numbers of obese Americans is impacting the workplace and workers' compensation claims. According to the article, a Duke University Medical Center study found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers' compensation claims and had seven-times higher medical costs from those claims than did non-obese workers. This link between obesity and workers' compensation costs means maintaining a healthy weight is not only important for employees, but also for their employers, said Truls Ostbye, M.D., Duke professor of community and family medicine and one of the study's authors. Workers' compensation writers are...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-06-20)
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