Wellness Programs Can Bridge Gap in Comp Mental Health Care

ORLANDO, Florida — Robust employee wellness programs can have an impact on workers' compensation claim outcomes, according to panelists speaking Wednesday at the Workers’ Compensation Institute's educational conference. Increasingly, human resources professionals are being called to assist with comp claims, particularly in the mental health space, by enlisting the help of an employee assistance program, said Carmen Penney, Collegedale, Tennessee-based manager of workers compensation for transportation company US Xpress Inc. “In my role, I’m dealing with a truc...