Industry Insights
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Paduda: More Good Jobs = More Premium and Claims | 10/19/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Old coal-fired electric plants are being converted to manufacturing, residential, office and recreational uses. These are massive undertakings involving dismantling giant buildings; taking down crumbling smokestacks; removing hundreds of tons of asbestos; shredding hundreds of...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Commodity Trap and Avoidance Thereof | 10/13/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Few would argue that work comp services is largely a commodity industry. “Price” is the ultimate decision criterion in most buying decisions. There are exceptions, but many are really service guarantees backed by financial penalties — another way for purchasers to demo...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Not Invented Here | 10/03/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| If we didn’t invent it, it didn’t need to be invented. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Medical Debt Is Crushing Americans | 09/28/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One out of three adults has medical debt. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Leaving Las Vegas | 09/25/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Here are a few quick takeaways from the National Comp event in Las Vegas: ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Medical Inflation in Work Comp | 09/12/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Medical inflation in workers' compensation isn’t a problem. In most states. Today. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Implications of Medicare Drug Price Negotiations | 09/01/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Medicare will negotiate drug prices. Big Pharma is really upset. AARP is really happy. What’s the REAL story? ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Long COVID Is Real. 'Social Inflation' Is Not. | 08/21/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute report on long COVID’s impact on work comp examined claims with an average of 18 months post-infe...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Heat and Job Growth | 08/16/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Two mostly-ignored things will have way more impact on workers’ comp than any other 10 factors. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Physician Dispensing in Work Comp Roars Back | 08/10/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Why? Mostly because insurers and employers have been asleep at the switch. ...Read More | |||
