7,000 Americans will be injured at work today.
Every one of them deserves a system that sees them as a person first and a claim number second.
Workers’ compensation was born from one of America’s great social achievements — the “Grand Bargain”, sometimes referred to as the “Great Compromise,” that promised injured workers medical care and wage support in exchange for giving up the right to sue. Employers got greater predictability and lawsuit protection. It was a brilliantly simple idea.
Over a century of legislative tinkering, jurisdictional variation, and bureaucratic expansion later, that simple idea has become something considerably less elegant. What started as a handshake has become an enormously complex system that competently manages claims but too often fails at what should be its actual purpose: helping people get better.
Workers’ Recovery is the argument that we can do better. Not by burning the house down, but by renovating it — vigorously, aggressively, and with a much better floor plan.
An Introduction to Workers’ Recovery
The Problem
A system designed to help injured workers and employers has evolved into one where the injured worker has become almost incidental to the process. We’ve built a machine so complex that the human being at the center has become an afterthought.
The Vision
Workers’ Recovery is workers’ compensation version 2.0. Same foundational principles. Same Grand Bargain. But upgraded for the 21st century, with the focus placed squarely where it belongs: on helping injured workers get better and get back to living.
The Book
“Thank You For Holding. Your Injury Is Important to Us” takes you on a lightheartedly serious tour of a system in need of reform — and lays out a practical, achievable framework for transforming it.
It’s Here! The Definitive Book on Workers’ Recovery
Thank You For Holding:
Your Injury Is Important To Us
More than 7,000 Americans are injured on the job every single day, each entering a system originally designed over a century ago and legislatively tinkered with ever since — so layered with regulations, procedures, and conflicting incentives that the human being at its center has become almost incidental to the process. Thank You For Holding takes you on a guided tour of that system, from the moment of injury through the paperwork avalanche, the insurance labyrinth, and the medical merry-go-round, exposing the absurdities and failures along the way — before laying out a practical, achievable blueprint for transforming workers’ compensation from a system that manages claims into one that restores lives. Written by Bob Wilson, a veteran of the industry who has spent over a decade developing and promoting this reform vision, the book combines deep industry knowledge with strategic humor to make a serious case for change that busy professionals will actually read.
Available soon!
About the Author
Bob Wilson
Bob is a well-known speaker, blogger, and entrepreneur with over 25 years in the workers’ compensation industry. He is a co-founder of WorkCompCollege.com, an educational platform dedicated to improving the knowledge and skills of workers’ compensation professionals. He was designated as one of the “50 Most Influential People in the Workers’ Compensation Industry” by the SEAK Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Medical Conference. He has won numerous awards, including being named one of the top 3 national bloggers for workers’ comp by LexisNexis.
The system is not the purpose. The people are the purpose. They always were.
Workers’ Recovery
For the next 100 years.