Why Return to Work is Now such a Big Deal

One can look at any challenge as an opportunity. In this way, a surge in federal and state return-to-work protections offers career opportunities for adept individual workers’ comp professionals and firms. A small number of claims payers in workers' comp got it, in part after their large clients insisted on help in nonoccupational return-to-work and job accommodation. Previously, I have noted Broadspire, Sedgwick and York. I’ll add Hartford, the insurer. I expect others will appear. Return-to-work decisions for injured workers have become more fraught with land mines,&nb...