Committee Seeks 'Culture Shift' That Values Return to Work

When an international organization of workers’ compensation administrators formed a committee to look at return-to-work issues, the group started out by asking various system stakeholders to explain the importance of return to work from their perspective. What the committee got back instead were complaints about how other stakeholders were the problem when it comes to getting injured workers back on the job. “There were no solutions being brought to the table, just a lot of finger pointing,” said Vickie Kennedy, assistant director for insurance services at the Washingto...