Also note that no adjustments were made to benefits based on the cost-of-illness approach or to work loss days.

It held that the denial of insurance benefits for work loss resulting from a normal pregnancy did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

When added to the 150 million workdays missed by employees suffering from a cold, the total economic impact of cold-related work loss exceeds $20 billion per year.

The valuation of Work Loss Days presented in our national benefits summaries, however, incorporates county-specific adjustment factors to account for variations in regional income.

With back care costing an estimated $60 billion annually in direct medical costs and indirect costs like work loss and compensation, back-savvy products have the glow of sales health.

In 1997, the last year for which figures are available, hepatitis A cost the United States about $489 million in work loss, lost productivity and medical costs, according to the study.

The American Heart Association estimates that if work loss is added to the cost of hospital, surgical and pharmacological intervention, heart disease costs the United States about $117.4 billion a year.

This disruption in cognitive functioning takes a toll on their ability to function in the work place, which leads to high rates of work loss in Bipolar II patient populations.

In 1993, Waddell et al. developed a Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) which showed that fear-avoidance beliefs about physical activities are strongly related to work loss.

Therefore, the only remaining live controversy in Geduldig was whether appellee Jaramillo and others similarly situated were entitled to benefits for work loss related to normal and generally healthy pregnancy and childbirth.

For the entire period the line served Roxburgh, it made a working loss, but it helped to promote economic development in the town and was an important means of supplying materials for the Roxburgh Dam.

These include prolonging thousands of lives and reducing tens of thousands to millions of cases in other indicators of adverse health effects, such as work loss days, restricted activity days, and days with asthma attacks.

At the small Psar Depot soap factory, a model technology project being assisted by the Mennonite Central Committee of Akron, Pa., plant managers say they have frequent power cuts, amounting on average to three days' work loss a week.

Work loss among people with RA has observed to be highest among persons among service workers, and lower among those in jobs with few physical demands, or in jobs where they have influence over the job pace and activities (52).

This was an attempt to improve the profitability of the line, but it did not work; from the opening of the final section to Roxburgh, the branch always made a working loss, with much traffic lost to road transport operators even before the line reached its greatest length.

In 1974, Kahn v. Shevin had upheld differences in property tax exemption between widows and widowers, and the Supreme Court ruled in Geduldig v. Aiello that denying compensation from work loss due to pregnancy did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.