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PA Announces Workers’ Comp Insurance Rate Cut
Boyertown, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Wolf Administration cabinet secretaries for the Insurance Department and Labor & Industry today announced Pennsylvania businesses will see another cut in...
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Rousmaniere: Getting Off Opioids
By Peter Rousmaniere The workers’ comp industry became something of an opioid delivery vehicle for opioids starting in the mid 1990s. Aside from anecdotes and personal narratives of individual...
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What Would You Do For $2 Billion?
By David Langham Yahoo reports confidently that The Way People Buy Legal Marijuana will Change in 2019. It is an intriguing headline that belies the fact that there is no "legal" marijuana in the U.S....
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Antibiotics as Treatment for Psyche Claim?
By WorkCompAcademy Sacramento, CA - A common antibiotic called doxycycline can disrupt the formation of negative thoughts and fears in the brain and may prove useful in treating or preventing post...
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Opt-Out Model: Arkansas May Follow Lone Star State
By Angela Underwood Little Rock, AR (WorkersCompensation.com) – Opt-in or opt-out of workers’ compensation is the question Sen. David Sanders (R-Little Rock) is proposing. If passed, SB 653 would...
View ArticleBe Your Own Boss – Why Self-Employment is More Popular Than Ever
By Jenny Holt According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 15 million people in the U.S. were self-employed in 2015. That’s an increase of over one million from the previous year and represents over...
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Front End Focus
By Julius Young Most of the focus of various workers’ comp studies are on the “back end” of workers’ comp. By that, I mean studies on medical costs, the litigation process, indemnity cost trends, loss...
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Given the Green Light: FL Firefighters Will Now Have Cancer Coverage
By Angela Underwood Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – There is a sigh of relief for first responders now that the Senate’s workers’ compensation bill has been amended to cover multiple...
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Michigan Medical Marihuana Regulation Centralized in New Bureau
By the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation Lansing, MI (WorkersCompensation.com) - Michigan has centralized all aspects of medical marihuana regulation with the creation of the Bureau of Medical...
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MT Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk, Would Disallow WC Claims if Employee Isn’t...
By Liz Carey A bill in the Montana Legislature would allow employers to deny workers’ compensation claims for employees who fail to disclose relevant prior workplace injuries. The bill, SB 116, was...
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Working to Understand the Opioid Crisis: OH Pharmacy Director Receives...
By Angela Underwood The stats on injured workers and opioid abuse are rising as you read this report. This week alone, WorkersCompensation.com has addressed the public plague of opioid abuse through...
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IAIABC Paper: Saskatchewan Work Comp Board CEO Talks How to Shift from...
By Dara Barney For Peter Federko, CEO of Saskatchewan, Canada’s Workers’ Compensation Board, the concept of returning an employee back to work after an injury really does start with the injured worker,...
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Highs and Lows in Cali: Largest Workers’ Comp Settlement Ever and Rate...
By Angela Underwood California (WorkersCompensation.com) – The juxtaposition of the largest workers’ compensation settlement in the state with the California Department of Insurance considering a rate...
View ArticleFL Watch: An Afternoon of Legislative Action
By Angela Underwood Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ Compensation benefits in Florida are not what they used to be. House Insurance & Banking Committee Chairman Daniel Burgess,...
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Rousmaniere: The Future of Two Cities
By Peter Rousmaniere The City of Work Injuries is shrinking in population while the City of Non-Occ Absences expands. During the Trump Administration, these trends are sure to persist. At some time...
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Research Finds Stress is Bad for Workers, Bad for Business
By Simply Work Comp Blog Work-related stress has significant costs for worker health and for a business’s bottom line. Three studies looked at stress in the workplace from different angles. The...
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WCRI Report on Provider Choice Policies: Who Gets to Pick the Doctor?
By Dara Barney Should the choice of provider in workers’ compensation cases be left to workers or employers? Is it more expensive when policies give control over doctor choice to one or the other? Are...
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VT and CO Legislative Watch: PTSD Coverage Action
By Angela Underwood Vermont and Colorado (WorkersCompensation.com) – Nationwide attention for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) coverage has turned to Colorado and Vermont recently. The evidence is...
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NY Workers’ Comp Reforms Work to Satisfy Businesses, Employee Groups
By Liz Carey New York (WorkersCompensation.com) – With the passage of a $153 billion budget, New York State is set to implement changes to its workers’ compensation system designed to protect...
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Department of Labor Saving it to the Cloud
By Angela Underwood Arlington, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The U.S. government is saving it to the Cloud. DRT, a technology and strategy agency based out of Virginia, has been awarded a very...
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