Workers compensation buyers have benefited from increased competition in recent years, but some companies could find it difficult to secure coverage as early as 2017 if underwriting loss predictions are realized. “Many clients [...]
Provisions call for employers to electronically submit injury and illness data that they already record Why is OSHA issuing this rule? This simple change in OSHA’s rulemaking requirements will improve safety for workers [...]
Back in October 1987, Paul O'Neill gave his first speech as CEO of Alcoa, the aluminum manufacturing giant. Investors were nervous, since Alcoa had faltered with failed product lines. But O'Neill didn't talk [...]
Improving the way opioids are prescribed through clinical practice guidelines can ensure patients have access to safer, more effective chronic pain treatment while reducing the number of people who misuse, abuse, or overdose [...]
News stories and press releases from insurance departments nationwide regularly disclose the prosecution of prison guards for workers’ compensation fraud. I often wondered why guards, obviously familiar with prison horrors, would risk incarceration. [...]
A fitness-for-duty examination must be job-related and consistent with business necessity according to the relevant EEOC Guidance. When an FCE is ordered by a physician as part of a workers’ compensation case, it [...]
This is a frequent question. It seems that the modern interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause concludes that the federal government may meddle in whatever it wishes, and there are few if any [...]
The insurance industry has a reputation for being slow to change, but “big data” is coming to force big changes in workers’ compensation. The emerging use by insurers of “big data” analytics in [...]
The final notes from the 2016 Workers’ Compensation Summit held in Dallas last week were released to the participants today. We promised that all of the notes taken from the “national conversation” on [...]
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