Industry Insights
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Paduda: How'd I Do in Predictions for 2023? | 01/03/2024 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Yikes! A year has passed (good riddance), and it’s time to own up to how I did on my annual predictions for workers’ comp, and stuff that will drive WC &mdas...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Provider Consolidation Means Higher Comp Costs, Longer Disability | 12/19/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Health care provider vertical integration increases work comp medical costs, increases disability duration and does not deliver better outcomes. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Another Deal Is Done in Work Comp Services | 12/08/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Private equity firms Lee Equity Partners and Elements Health Investors completed a recap of Carisk Partners last week, marking one of the very few deals to be done over the last many months. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Getting Smarter About PT | 11/27/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Why do some patients need more physical therapy than others? ...Read More | |||
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Pududa: Forbes' 'Rating' of Workers' Comp Insurers Is a Farce | 11/21/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 1 | |||
| OK, folks, I’m gonna get snarky here. ...Read More | |||
| Paduda: The State of the Work Comp Bill Review Industry | 11/06/2023 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Over the last two decades, work comp bill review has A) changed a lot and B) remained stagnant. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Don't Let the Past Repeat Itself | 10/25/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The Triangle Shirtwaist fire was the horrific result of unregulated capitalism in which 146 people — mostly women — burned to death or were smashed on the pavement nine stories below the factory floor when fire raged through their Greenwich Village workplace. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: More Good Jobs = More Premium and Claims | 10/19/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Old coal-fired electric plants are being converted to manufacturing, residential, office and recreational uses. These are massive undertakings involving dismantling giant buildings; taking down crumbling smokestacks; removing hundreds of tons of asbestos; shredding hundreds of...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Commodity Trap and Avoidance Thereof | 10/13/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Few would argue that work comp services is largely a commodity industry. “Price” is the ultimate decision criterion in most buying decisions. There are exceptions, but many are really service guarantees backed by financial penalties — another way for purchasers to demo...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Not Invented Here | 10/03/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| If we didn’t invent it, it didn’t need to be invented. ...Read More | |||
