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OSHA Seeks Applicants for $1.5 million in Susan Harwood Safety and Health Training Grants

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is soliciting applications under the Susan Harwood...

Fitness-For-Duty Exams: When Can You Require Them For Emotional Issues (and for At-Home Workers)?

By MINDY CHAPMAN

Employers typically require workers to undergo fitness for duty exams (FFDEs) when employees return after an...

WCI Briefs: 5.16.13

WCI BRIEFS: To save you time, here’s a sampling of workers' compensation and insurance news from around...

NCCI’s Outlook on Workers Compensation Industry: “Encouraging”

The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) today released its annual State of the Line workers’ compensation market...

WCI Briefs: 5.15.13

WCI BRIEFS: To save you time, here’s a sampling of workers' compensation and insurance news from around...

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Boulders and Making A Life Better

Bolders bring out the best in us, and boulders consequently bring out the best in life - our relationships with others. That was the message that Aron Ralston delivered to an enraptured audience at NCCI's Annual Issues Symposium (AIS) yesterday.

NCCI’s regulatory and legislative update

Day One is concluding with a discussion of legislative and regulatory trends, a panel of legislators and then your devoted author discussing “Thieves, Profiteers, and Enablers”; the bad actors infesting workers comp.

What About Workers’ Compensation In North Dakota?

A recent article in the New York Times recounted the growing burden on North Dakota hospitals because of on-the-job injuries to workers who have flooded that state to work in the booming oil industry.

Fatal Work Injuries in Carolinas - True Toll Hard to Determine

Each and every day, more than 100 workers in the U.S. are killed on the job from injury or work-related illness, according to a recent study from the AFL-CIO. But the true number might actually be much higher.