Industry Insights
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Paduda: Injured Workers With Attorneys Cost More, Don't Recover as Well | 10/28/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Three years after injury, injured workers represented by attorneys have lower health scores than similar injured workers who aren’t represented. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Is California the Canary in the Coal Mine? | 09/24/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Two reports indicate that workers’ comp medical costs in California are climbing. That’s important for two reasons: ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Heat Dome? It's Gonna Be Brutal. | 07/01/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The hottest temps we’ve seen this year are about to hit 78 million of us. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Good News for Florida's Doctors | 06/24/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| After decades of being wildly underpaid due to the Sunshine State’s abysmally low workers’ comp fee schedule, 2025 saw those worthies get a major jump in pay: 41%, to be precise. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What's Up With Worker Heat Protections? | 06/15/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| In a word, limbo. Joe Paduda Th...Read More | |||
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Paduda: What's Up in Work Comp? | 05/08/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Here are a few notable items for your consideration. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Why Work Comp Won't Change | 04/17/2026 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| I was talking at length last week with a good friend who works for a large payer, discussing the process of getting the organization to make significant, and very much needed, improvements to its managed care program. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Where Did the Comp Claims Go? | 03/20/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Private employers and insurers are happy. Claims service entities? Not so much. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Connection Between Medicaid and Workers' Comp | 02/27/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Workers' comp and Medicaid are intertwined. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Catastrophic Claims Are Changing | 02/04/2026 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Excellent research on high-cost work comp claims by NCCI’s Brett Foster and Yuchen Su indicates that we need to take a step back and revisit how we characterize, think about and manage catastrophic claims. ...Read More | |||
