Industry Insights
| Work Comp Drug Trend Reports 'tis the Season | 05/09/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| 'Tis the season for drug trend reports. Recent releases from PMSI, Express Scripts (ESI), and Progressive Medical show an ever-increasing level of sophistication and growing insight into cost drivers in workers comp pharmacy. Moreover, the layout, graphics, use of charts and layout are far super...Read More | |||
| WCC Giveth to Casino Dealers and Taketh Away from Prison Guards | 05/04/2012 | ||
| By: Ellen Keefe-Garner | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| As fast as we see the great reporters at the Belleville News-Democrat telling everyone the newly appointed arbitrators are backing off and denying workers' compensation benefits for at least seven prison guards in Southern Illinois, we are stunned to see Illinois casinos getting whacked with imp...Read More | |||
| Wash., Texas and Fla.: Same Issues, Different Solutions | 01/20/2012 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The state of Washington is cited often these days as an example of what to do about the prescription drug and opioid epidemic that currently has the workers' compensation industry concerned.According to the study, "Bending the Prescription Opioid Dosing and Mortality Curves: Impact o...Read More | |||
| What's Up for 2012: Predictions for Work Comp in the New Year | 01/17/2012 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| There's a lot happening in the work comp industry: a hardening market; frequency ticking up; consolidation/mergers/acquisitions and buyouts; legislative and regulatory changes; and management moves. And all this against the backdrop of a very big election year.So here's what I...Read More | |||
| WCRI Conference: Shifting Paradigms in Workers' Comp | 11/29/2011 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| I spent two very productive days earlier this month at the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) conference in Boston. WCRI plays a unique role in the comp system. Their annual conference, devoid of the usual hucksterism, focuses on the fundamental paradigms of insurance and poses the ...Read More | |||
| Why Compromising After the Battle Sometimes Makes Cents | 11/28/2011 | ||
| By: Tanya Gee | |||
| State: SC | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Attorneys tend to think of mediation as a pre-hearing tool, and the concept usually fades from the mind after the Appellate Panel renders a decision. The successful attorney is generally quite content with preserving the outcome, while the appellant focuses on trying to find a reset button on appeal...Read More | |||
| What's with All the M&A Activity in Comp? | 10/10/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Up until this week, it looked like this fall mergersa and acquisitions in the work comp services sector was going to be at an all-time high. Now, with Greece in default, the Euro in serious trouble, and markets looking for yet another bottom, things may slow down or perhaps even stop.Wh...Read More | |||
| WCAB Provides Guidance on QME/AME Process Timing Issues | 09/28/2011 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| If there was ever a question the medical-legal process in workers’ compensation has become concerned with tactical minutia rather than dealing with substantive issues in the day-to-day comp practice, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board's en banc opinion in Tsegay Messele v. Pitco F...Read More | |||
| Work Comp Drugs: What Works in Washington | 09/13/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: WA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| There has been a lot of discussion about the Workers' Compensation Research Institute report on Washington state's workers' compensation pharmacy costs. Unfortunately a good bit of the discussion has been rather simplistic, citing some of the findings without placing those findings in th...Read More | |||
| Workers' Comp's Future: IAIABC Closing Session | 08/29/2011 | ||
| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Three speakers in the final International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions session focused on the future of workers comp and factors affecting same. Allen Hunt of the University of Wisconsin started out discussing the factors contributing to the current deficit. In a nutshel...Read More | |||
