Industry Insights
| Workers' Comp on Demand | 06/01/2015 | ||
| By: Nancy Grover (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| Smartphones are a great thing. Just think: With the swipe of a finger you can summon a car to get you to the airport, engage a handyman to fix your gutters or fetch someone to do your laundry. Don't want your in-laws in your face for the two weeks they're in town? No problem! Airbnb's...Read More | |||
| We Know too much: New Liabilities Associated with Opioid Abuse | 05/27/2015 | ||
| By: Michael Gavin | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A new ruling from Texas adds to the list of states that have found payers liable for a range of opioid-related side effects ranging from addiction to death. In this particular case, the payer was found liable for death benefits in light of the injured worker's death caused by hydrocodone over...Read More | |||
| Workers' Compensation: A Safety Net that still Works | 05/19/2015 | ||
| By: Leigh Ann Pusey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Before Social Security or the concept of a “social safety net,” America had workers’ compensation. At the turn of the 20th Century, policymakers struck what they called a grand bargain. Employers would provide medical treatment and income support for lost wages to injured worker...Read More | |||
| Which State will be last to Embrace E-filing? | 05/12/2015 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Workers' compensation is a result of the industrial revolution. Germany is credited with leading the way. Our U.S. history includes some failed attempts to enact such laws at the turn of the last century, then the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911. Workers' compensat...Read More | |||
| What Opt-Out Advocates Need to Do | 04/27/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| About mid-April, legislative prospects for opt-out in Tennessee fell apart. Oklahoma’s enactment of opt-out in 2013 in its second try shows that a winning coalition takes time to form. Advocates on the national stage include the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers&rs...Read More | |||
| Why Shouldn’t WC Insurers Fund chronic Pain Research? | 04/13/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Chronic pain imposes a huge toll, sometimes deadly, on injured workers. The financial cost to claims payers, if modestly set at 15% of annual benefits paid, comes to $10 billion. What would happen if claims payers devoted one-tenth of 1% of that on applied research to pursue advances in preventio...Read More | |||
| What Do you Know about Medical Providers? | 02/11/2015 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Who should provide medical care for us? How do we make decisions selecting a medical provider – from the Yellow Pages, referrals, recommendations? Who licenses providers, and what are the constraints of their practices? Part of our federalist system is that regulation of medical pra...Read More | |||
| Workers Comp Expands into Non-occ Absences | 02/17/2015 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Declining work injury trends and rising non-occ absence trends are signaling to workers’ comp claims payers the need to diversify. Employers are being saddled with an ever-broadening array of non-occupational job disability rights and employee leave mandates. Risk of government fine...Read More | |||
| Walker Wants to Whack Wisc. WC – Will Rauner Follow? | 02/03/2015 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Workers’ comp watchers across the Midwest were stunned to see a memo come out of Cheese-land where it appears Gov. Scott Walker is trying to break up or “de...Read More | |||
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When ACA Deductibles Attack, Can Workers’ Comp React? | 01/30/2015 | |
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| By: Barry Thompson | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Barry Thompson Fact: Affordable Car...Read More | |||
