For human resource professionals labor law specialists and others involved in the practice of labormanagement relations Lencsis provides a concise easilyaccessed description of the workers compensation system in the United States its governing laws and also its insurance aspects Covering all major facets of workers compensation legislation and the insurance and risk management techniques used to comply with them his book will have equal benefits for the staffs of insurance companies and brokerages compensation and claims professionals and for workers compensation executives in governmental agenciesLencsis explains that workers compensation laws were enacted on the federal and state levels in the early part of the century and have endured in the same basic form to the present They represent a radical departure from common law concepts of negligence and damages in that they provide for statutory medical and wageloss benefits regardless of who is at fault Lencsis explores how insurance