Industry Insights
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Lynch: Some Final Thoughts Following WCRI's Annual Conference | 03/29/2016 | |
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| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This year’s conference was an interesting blend of hard data and subjective debate. ...Read More | |||
| Langham: Where Do We Go From Here? | 03/11/2016 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Dissatisfaction with workers' compensation is nothing new. In 1972 the National Commission issued its report regarding workers’ compensation. There is discussion today of federalizing workers’ compensation, or establishing federal standards. Some even discuss the potential for a 2...Read More | |||
| Langham: Constitutional Challenge Recap and Overview | 03/08/2016 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| At the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Conference last month, I provided an overview of some constitutional challenges to workers’ compensation. Five years ago, that would have been a ten-minute discussion, but constitutional challenges have more recently trended from the except...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Artificial Intelligence: Change On A Monumental Scale | 03/07/2016 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Joe Paduda, at Managed Care Matters, did the workers’ compensation community a service with his blog post, What Job?, in which he writes about the likely prospect of many jobs dis...Read More | |||
| Langham: Opt-Out Statute Declared Unconstitutional | 03/01/2016 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In 2013, battle lines were drawn. Finding the union no longer to their liking, a small but powerful band withdrew from the world of workers’ compensation and sought to form a new system and alliance. Like the shots at Fort Sumter in 1861, the enactment of the Oklahoma Opt-Out was a shot hea...Read More | |||
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Langham: Firefighters Seek to Change Cancer Presumption in Workers' Compensation in 2016 | 02/25/2016 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Firefighters have been very successful over the last 40 years convincing legislators that the health risks they face are different from the health risks of others. In workers' compensation statutes, and sometimes in free-standing ancillary statutes, firefighters and other first responder...Read More | |||
| Low Back Pain is Leading Cause of Occupational Disability | 12/24/2015 | ||
| By: Virginia Hunt | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| According to the U.S. Department of Labor, low back pain accounts for one-third of all occupational musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses resulting in work disability. A recent article in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's December 2015 edition states tha...Read More | |||
| Low Back Ache: a Pain in the Brain | 06/15/2015 | ||
| By: Nancy Grover (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers' comp payers are spending a bundle on imaging tests and procedures to deal with injured workers' low back pain. But the situation isn't getting any better. In fact, experts say that despite much more aggressive treatment – and a 10-fold increase in costs! – outcome...Read More | |||
| Let's Talk TRIA: NOW | 01/26/2015 | ||
| By: Nancy Grover (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Congress' passing, and President Obama's signing of the latest version of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was a huge relief to many – especially those of us in the workers' comp system. Without it, the prohibition against workers' comp policies excluding terrorism would hav...Read More | |||
| Lighting Up Workers' Compensation through Research | 11/05/2014 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Formal research helps us to better understand and reduce the burden of work injuries. Sometimes formal research provokes change and sometimes it works in parallel with industry practice. As medical costs rose along with share of claims costs, the value of recruiting medical expertise in the...Read More | |||
