Industry Insights
Massey Energy Mine Disaster: The Soul of a Bean Counter | 04/13/2010 | ||
State: WV | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesIn our first blog of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that took 29 lives last week, we made no attempt to point fingers. It was a time for mourning, for acknowledging the sacrifices of the brave men whose jobs never see the light of day....Read More | |||
Maine's Fee Schedule: Down the Rabbit Hole | 04/05/2010 | ||
State: ME | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesThree months ago we blogged the ongoing agony of Bath Iron Works (BIW), the people who build destroyers for the Navy. You may recall that BIW self insures for workers comp, and as such must pay the "usual and customary" fees for medical se...Read More | |||
Monetary Relief for Illinois Employers | 03/29/2010 | ||
By: Shawn R. Biery | |||
State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Shawn R. BieryKeefe, Campbell & AssociatesTaking you back down memory lane, we recall the first Chairman appointed by our current Governor-out-on-bond, supported a change to the funding of the later renamed Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. It was the new Chai...Read More | |||
Making Workers' Comp Work: The Marine Corps Way | 02/26/2010 | ||
State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Barbara KarkulaAt the U.S. Marine Corps, we’ve developed a successful three-point approach to ensuring a continually-improving workers’ compensation system: Relationships, education and information. Relationships are a critical building block in establishi...Read More | |||
Medical Care Seems to Win Out over Medial Forms | 02/17/2010 | ||
State: NY | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Brian M. MittmanIn order to make the system more user friendly, collect needed information and speed up the process the NY Workers Compensation Board and our friends in Albany undertook to create these positives through the 2007 workers compensation law reform and subsequent administr...Read More | |||
Making Workers' Comp Work | 02/16/2010 | ||
State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Phil WalkerOn March 11-12 in San Francisco, I am trying to do what many people have thought impossible: bring together the disparate players in the workers comp world to focus on a single objective: to start fixing a broken workers’ comp system in California. P...Read More | |||
Medicare and Workers' Comp: NCCI's View | 02/08/2010 | ||
By: Joe Paduda | |||
State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Joe PadudaRecently, NCCI released a white paper entitled "Medicare and Workers Compensation Medical Cost Containment." The report goes well beyond a discussion of the relationship between Medicare's physician and hospital reimbursement policies' impact on workers' comp; no...Read More | |||
Mich. WC Case is a Wake-Up Call for Businesses | 02/02/2010 | ||
State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Randall S. Boss For most employers, workers’ compensation insurance has long been a buffer between them and the frivolous lawsuits employees could potentially file every time they slipped on a wet floor, wrenched their back picking up a box, or banged their head on a low-hanging...Read More | |||
More Gold-Digging in the Tunnels of Illinois | 11/03/2009 | ||
By: Eugene Keefe | |||
State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Eugene KeefeSynopsis: More gold-digging in the “Tunnels of Illinois.” Are lawsuit lenders now “creating” claims by financing workers' compensation surgeries? Editor’s comment: From our review, it would appear lawsuit lenders may be fu...Read More | |||
Maurice Greenberg is Back | 10/29/2009 | ||
State: CA | Segment: | 0 | |||
By Julius YoungHe's baaaaak!Not that he really ever left.....That's Maurice Greenberg, who as chairman of AIG presided over the rise of an insurance behemoth. AIG is everywhere. Several months ago while walking in Shanghai on the banks of the H...Read More | |||