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Nancy Grover
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While there may be ‘no crying in baseball,’ that famous movie mantra...
Liz Carey
San Jose, Cal. (WorkersCompensation.com) – An inflatable Christmas tree costume intended to cheer up patients and...
Austin, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – The rate of fatal occupational injuries nationally in 2019 was 3.5 per...
F.J. Thomas
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new rules for a certain class...
Houston, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police in Texas have arrested one man, and police in California are...
Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a nationwide lawsuit against Walmart...
Chriss Swaney
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Better times are just around the corner, a growing number of executives...
Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – Recognizing the impact the Covid-19 pandemic is having on Americans’ mental health,...
Frank Ferreri
Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – When multiple doctors think a worker’s condition has improved, does that warrant...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A recent article written by researchers at Harvard, and Brigham and Women’s...
Leon Levy
Tampa, FL (EZ Dental Care)- Recently, an article was published by the American Dental Association arguing...
San Francisco Bay, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A grocery store worker in the San Francisco Bay area...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – As the emergence of COVID-19 vaccinations signals a light at the end...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A recent analysis from medical professional liability company Coverys shows that although there have...
Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – COVID-19 presumptions, mental injuries, independent contractors and marijuana were among the...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently announced that he has petitioned the Sacramento County...
Indianapolis, IN (WorkersCompensation.com) – When a coworker owns the premises where a worker experiences an injury,...
Sioux City, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – One of two men injured in a methane gas explosion at...
Harrisburg, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – While a home improvement company wanted its doctor’s testimony to set the...
Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The terms “orthotic” and “durable medical equipment” or DME, are commonly used...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The availability of vaccines should not be a signal for employers to...
Bobby Stokes
From Swine Flu to Blood Drives, the Compensability of Employer-Sponsored Inoculation or Needle Stick Injuries Ed:...
Warren Gerstein, President of S.K.I. Investigations
S.K.I. Investigations is sad to announce that at 10:20pm on Thursday Dec 3rd, 2020 we lost...
Las Vegas, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) – When a worker turns up at a doctor with pain from...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – This month’s House passage of legislation to legalize marijuana on the federal...
Glen Burnie, Md. (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Maryland bowling alley manager is in the hospital after he...
Lake Charles, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s possible that a fender bender on the job could aggravate...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The pay reductions proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this...
Mike Ligmanowski PTA ATC/L, CEAS I, CWcHP
Whether you are playing at Everbank field on Sundays or were one of the many who...
Austin, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – In a clear case of going from (one of the) worst-to-firsts, the...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Medical billers have access to more critical information than probably anyone else...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an employee seeks leave for surgery but doesn’t have surgery scheduled,...
Waterloo, Iowa (WorkersCompensation.com) – Tyson Foods has suspended managers and other officials at its facility in...
Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – At least 25 state Attorneys General and six U.S. Senators oppose the...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to the most recent report from The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Several California-based bus drivers recently complained about safety issues as fears grow...
Spokane, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Breaking bread together has a way of healing tensions, but as a...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Nebraska changed its rules regarding compensable mental-mental injuries. Washington is trying to...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Whether an employee in New York works “substantially the whole” of...
Austin, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A recent study of construction workers in the Austin, Texas area posed...
Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an Ohio worker experienced an injury due to a safety violation...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Weaning an injured worker off opioids without his consent just won’t work....
Rochester, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security along with CISA, FBI,...
Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – Several U.S. Senators are taking issue with the settlement reached between the...
Concussions—or mild traumatic brain injuries—can be extremely challenging to diagnose and treat due to variability in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Three drug distributors and a drug manufacturer have proposed a $26 billion...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – It seems women are getting the short end of the stick in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – There were 50,592 COVID-19 claims in the California workers’ compensation system as...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – One of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic and the tragedies it’s...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Looks like Uber and Lyft drivers in California will remain independent contractors....
A message from Founders and Chairmen, Jim McConnaughhay & Steve Rissman: For the year 2021, the...
Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – “We are issuing a $5 billion dividend to ease the financial pressures...
St. Louis, MO (WorkersCompensation.com) – Some days, the old adage about “work” being a four-letter word...
Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Department Of Justice recently announced a $9.2 million settlement to resolve allegations of...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Along with depression, suicidal thoughts and substance abuse, domestic violence incidents have...
Queens, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A salesclerk in a Queens smoke shop is dead after a confrontation...
Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Legislation to require employers/insurers to pay for medical marijuana for injured workers...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Providers in Italy are adding thoracic x-rays to their protocol for COVID-19...
Alexandria, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – When a worker has pain following a workplace accident, how much does...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – “Behavioral health is going to reshape work comp.” That was among the...
Gold Bar, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former small-town police chief’s arraignment on two counts of making...
Jaime Sigurdsson, CEAS, Director of Worker’s Compensation, CORA Physical Therapy
When an injured worker presents to a medical professional with symptoms that don’t match their diagnosis,...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Fewer than expected COVID-19 related claims and lower non-COVID claim frequency spells...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – If knowledge is power, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s regular updating of its COVID-19...
Wake Forest, N.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former Republican state legislator is accused of assaulting an election...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The national news is fraught with reports that the numbers of COVID-19...
Houston, Texas (WorkersCompensation.com) – While a new settlement in numerous cases against the largest generic opioid...
William Clay
According to workers’ compensation PBM myMatrixx, a comprehensive approach to mental health treatment can help effectively...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While the pandemic has hit everyone hard, when it comes to the...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Face coverings in the workplace are a key component in the push to enhance...
Houston, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Three construction workers are dead and another is injured after a stairwell...
Little Rock, AR (WorkersCompensation.com) – Pro tip: Anyone who claims to be “barely able to move”...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The coronavirus pandemic has led to a number of changes in the...
Townsend, Del. (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Delaware Secretary of Transportation is calling for drivers to be more...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A prominent orthopedic surgeon has been suspended from Edgbaston Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom...
Billings, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) – The U.S. Department of Justice District of Montana has announced charges involving telemedicine fraud...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – As employers continue to grapple with COVID-19’s impact on workplace safety, the...
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The summer months has brought about a major shift in the demographics...
Shanea A. McKinney, PharmD | Clinical Account Executive
As the overall population of the United States continues to age, so too does the workforce....
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – If an employee indicates he needs an accommodation to be able to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Any headway made in recent efforts to stem the opioid crisis is...
Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Standing up from a kneeling position might not have employment characteristics in...
Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – With tensions running high across the country, last month was another rough...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Older workers who get insufficient – or too much – sleep may...
Salt Lake City, UT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Examining steal beams might not be a part of everyday...
New York City, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his administration’s Department of...
Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – “I want to talk to you about something I’ve heard repeatedly from...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A security breach earlier this year at cloud software company Blackbaud, has impacted...
Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new NCCI study seems to fly in the face of what many...
Data Summary as of August 31, 2020
Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Little more than a year after purchasing the company, a private equity...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – As alternative therapies such as acupuncture become more commonplace for treatment of pain, one...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A group of workers protested the Mars Candy Company recently saying that...
FJ. Thomas
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Atlanta based digital holistic healthcare company Sharecare recently released a report ranking states from data analyzed...
Wicker Park, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A woman working at a Chicago-area Walgreens was attacked and fatally...
Jim McConnaughhay, Co-Founder And General Chair Of WCI
Having to postpone the Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference after 30+ years of sponsorship by the Workers’...
Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former postal worker was denied permanent total disability benefits last week...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released this week by the U.S....
Denver, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) – Although a pilot was intoxicated and had not returned to his hotel...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – One of the most significant side effects of the current pandemic on...
Rainier, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former safety and health manager with a wind turbine project in...
Bob Wilson
Cybersecurity has been a rapidly rising topic of late, not just for the workers’ comp industry,...
Skokie, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for...
Harrisburg, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A newspaper carrier injured himself on an icy driveway while delivering papers....
Houston, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Medical coding guidelines and rules change on a continual basis, requiring providers...
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention has issued new guidance...
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Are there more ‘mega claims’ in workers’ compensation these days? And are...
Secaucus, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – The latest drug test results do not bode well for the workforce...
Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers cleaning up federal nuclear sites may face a number of long-term...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – For many years only a certain number of surgical procedures were approved...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The New York State Department of Financial Services has filed charges against...
Toni Sutton-Deangelica
St. Joseph, MO (WorkersCompensation.com)- A a global pharmaceutical company and federal contractor has agreed to pay...
Jim McConnaughhay, Co-founder and General Chair of WCI
I recently read an article in the Orlando Florida Business Journal describing a letter that a local employer...
By: Dale Berry, CP, FAAOP, LP, Orchid Medical
According to The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the costliest lost-time workers’ compensation claims by...
Concord, NH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Is it reasonable and necessary for an employee to up and move...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ compensation stakeholders have had to quickly change many of their processes...
Providence, RI (WorkersCompensation.com) – The The The opioid epidemic has long been center stage of the...
Lexington, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Operators of a Massachusetts restaurant chain have been ordered to pay $125,000...
Langhorne, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – As reports of violence against workers continue, Dr. George Vergolias, believes it’s...
Julie Fetherman
The Workers’ Compensation Institute (WCI) strives to be the premier conference where the industry can come...
Pikeville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Kentucky pain management physician and his wife have pleaded guilty to...
Saratoga County, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The widow of a Saratoga County Sewer District Employee will receive...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A safe work environment and opioid use don’t exactly go well together,...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Organizations are adapting to the COVID-19 environment in a variety of ways,...
Cincinnati, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) — test test A CPAP machine for a truck driver with sleep apnea was an...
Dr. Teresa Bartlett, Managing Director, Senior Medical Officer, Sedgwick
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust telemedicine into the spotlight. When faced with sitting...
Bethlehem Township, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Attorneys for a Pennsylvania man said he was “not handling the...
Garden Ridge, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police in Garden Ridge, Texas are searching for the man they...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Lawsuits. Disparate treatment of workers. Companies relocating to other states. Job losses...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to statistics from OSHA, employers spend $1 billion per week on workers’ compensation...
Raleigh, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – While buying a non-OSHA compliant tractor seat without a seatbelt from eBay...
Rita Wilson, CEO Tower MSA Partners
In the words of Peter Drucker, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” This is particularly...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Citing concerns over violence towards their employees, major retailers have said...
Lansing, MI (WorkersCompensation.com) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel argued that opioid distributors willfully disregarded processes...
New Orleans, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The operator of dozens of convenience stores in Louisiana couldn’t separate...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Forgetting to report the date of a workers’ compensation settlement for a...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new extensive set of guidelines developed by the International Consensus Group (ICM) to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Traffic roundabouts and narrower lanes to slow the pace of traffic may...
Lubbock, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Lubbock, Texas bus driver was left battered and bleeding after a...
Montpelier, VT (Workerscompensation.com) – Add Vermont to the jurisdictions with rebuttable presumptions for certain workers who...
Charleston, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) – Physical therapy and custom insoles weren’t in store for a retail sales...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to data from the US Bureau Of Labor Statistics, the percentage of women...
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – California has seen approximately 15,000 COVID-19-related workers’ compensation claims for the time...
Kansas City, MO (WorkersCompensation.com) – While a person’s spouse and children typically would be considered “dependents”...
Toni Sutton-Deangelico
Bellwood, IL (Workerscompensation.com)-The long time American candy manufacturer Ferrara Candy Company, best known as the makers...
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The American Medical Association is urging the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)...
Santa Ana, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A California physician/ambulatory surgery center owner and his girlfriend have been...
Teresa Williams, MSW, LCSW Chief Executive Officer – Partner HomeCare Connect
Some injured and ill workers need to transfer from a hospital to a post-acute care (PAC)...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – As cornavirus cases continue to spike in many areas, workers face more...
Waterloo, IOWA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The families of three meat processing plant workers who died of Covid-19...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Most businesses know that data breaches are usually pretty costly due to...
Santa Barbara, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former Ventura County firefighter has been charged with workers’ compensation...
Cheyenne, WY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A foreman’s knowledge that the area around a spin-straightener was icy and...
David Langham, Deputy Chief Judge, Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims
There is a cost-free opportunity on the horizon for exceptional workers’ compensation education. This is produced...
Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, rising drug costs continue to grab attention and headlines. In fact,...
Toni sutton-Deangelico
Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Two brothers accused of setting fire to their hookah lounge in 2018...
Santa Ana, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A California police officer has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud...
Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The insurance carrier for a Louisiana trucking company was entitled to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new poll from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) provides some insight...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a recent survey say their stress levels...
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Much has changed since 1935, and in Georgia that includes whether workers’...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – An event that sounds like a scene straight out of the movie...
Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Seattle City Council voted recently to require Instacart and other food...
Worcester, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – While it’s not common, the world of workers’ compensation law might find...
Little Rock, AR (WorkersCompensation.com) – Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s latest executive order regarding COVID-19 does not create a presumption...
Austin, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Texas oil company’s inability to show that it controlled a worker’s...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police officers and the communities they serve will be in danger if...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Long term stress can have a huge impact on the work place...
New York City, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he is going after...
Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s back to the drawing board for Florida’s governor. The state’s Chief...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The College of Dentistry at New York University (NYU) announced the development of...
Tumwater, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Many workers in Washington state are under orders to wear certain types...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – If there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it may...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A doctor’s “agnosticism” over how likely it was that a janitor’s job...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A recent analysis financially backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that...
Stuart, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Anyone tuned in to workers’ compensation news of late has probably seen...
Annapolis, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) – A settlement agreement signed by a firefighter doesn’t prevent his widow from...
Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Eastern District of Pennsylvania Department Of Justice announced that Branden Coluccio of Doylestown...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Insurers focused solely on workers’ compensation issues associated with COVID-19 may be...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employees returning to the workplace after months of working remotely have fears...
By Vonesa Wenzel, Managing Partner HomeCare Connect
Texting has woven its way deep into the fabric of American culture, including in the healthcare...
Las Vegas, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) – A string of four late payments of temporary total disability benefits...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – As more states are changing or reconsidering rules to ensure that nurses,...
Lexington, KY (WorkersCompensation.com)- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently awarded a $3 million grant...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The older the claim, the higher the costs — especially for prescription...
Amarillo, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Texas family has filed a lawsuit against the Tyson Plant in...
Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) — When the New Jersey legislature set out to reduce the cost of...
Cincinnati, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Just four days after news spread that Cincinnati-based grocery store chain Kroger...
Ashtabula, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – A data breach at an Ohio hospital that occurred on January was...
Corvallis, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) – While conventional wisdom in today’s workplace states that an unsafe work environment...
Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Another year of underwriting gains, declining claim frequency and a strong...
Industry Responses To the Postponement
It is with profound disappointment that the Board of Directors of the Workers’ Compensation Institute (WCI)...
Flint, MI (WorkersCompensation.com) – Authorities in Michigan have been investigating the shooting of a retail worker...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The month of May signaled the start of reopening for many businesses....
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers who were laid off during the pandemic may be more likely...
Savannah, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – It seems durable medical equipment (DME) and telemedicine have been under the...
Cleveland, OK (WorkersCompensation.com) – An Oklahoma paramedic recovering from the coronavirus says her medical bills are...
Nevada (WorkersCompensation.com)- Nevada workplace safety regulators have updated a memo that was previously sent out to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Bringing employees back to work should be carefully planned in order to...
San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials with California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund say they will pay...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – In response to the COVID-19 crisis, some providers were required to cancel...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The move to virtual workers’ compensation proceedings has been relatively smooth, despite...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With recent rule changes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With states increasingly adopting presumptions for workers who contract the coronavirus to...
Toni Sutton-DeAngelico
Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com)-OSHA has cited a Columbus-based roofing contractor for exposing workers to falls at job...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – First responders, healthcare workers, and many other ‘essential workers’ are putting their...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While hospitals and healthcare facilities are working diligently to improve the lives...
Frankfurt, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – “Kentuckians who, because of the nature of their employment, are at risk...
Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, rural hospitals were often in the...
Raleigh, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former civilian employee of the Navy was charged yesterday with making...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Mental health experts say depression and stress are endemic to the ongoing...
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – With all the data churning that is going on in response to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Dramatic drops in claim frequency along with reductions in premium are among...
New Orleans, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The deaths of three workers and injuries to 18 others has...
Melbourne, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) A Florida construction company has been hit with a hefty fine from OSHA...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – The nation’s hospitals have been asked by the Centers for Medicare &...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Finding return-to-work opportunities is quickly becoming a nearly insurmountable challenge, as companies...
Jim McConnaughhay, WCI Chair Steve Rissman, WCI Chair of Program Committee Julie Fetherman, WCI Associate Executive...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – One of the biggest enemies to maintaining a normal weight is inactivity....
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – After nearly 18 years in court, a New York umpire’s case...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – As the coronavirus continues to spread, more workers are heading back home...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Exposure to COVID-19 at medical facilities where injured workers have been sent...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – In a recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With the Coronavirus presenting new logistical hurdles to keep employees and businesses...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new survey of more than 1,000 U.S. employees from Reflektive, suggests...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Is COVID-19 compensable under workers’ compensation? Maybe. A new white paper from Broadspire, a...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to a recent NextGov report, the head of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Federal authorities announced a 71-year-old doctor will serve 18 months in...
Glen Wieland
In these unprecedented times, the Workers Compensation Institute urges civility and cooperation for all those involved...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Some of the very same strategies that help keep injured workers engaged...
New Orleans, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A building inspector who allegedly filed false inspection reports before a...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Exciting new research from the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Cancelled business trips and cleaning supplies are among the main items pushing...
Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A truck driver injured while delivering ice is not eligible for workers’...
Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the state is taking steps to ensure...
Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Jason Nash got a bird’s eye view of the recent tornado in...
Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Take some athletic tape, package it up with Ben Gay and lidocaine...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced recently that new regulations in the state will require...
Pittsburgh, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A 72-year-old reporter with Pittsburgh-based television news station KDKA has filed suit...
Dr. Teresa Bartlett, Sedgwick
COVID-19, the virus that has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, is affecting...
The Workers’ Compensation Institute (WCI) is closely monitoring any developments as they relate to the coronavirus...
Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – With cybercrimes and data hacks having the 3rd highest growth rate with an estimated cost...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – There’s a move afoot in Washington state to get injured workers back...
Roseville, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – An investigation into a company that provides school bus operations revealed that...
Washington DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A safety initiative put in place in 2006 by the Food and...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Older workers may be more inclined to test positive for marijuana use....
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Businesses going bankrupt. Cyber threat actors being able to wander around a...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new military study suggests that getting enough sleep is critical to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With tens of thousands infected worldwide, and some 2000 deaths from the...
Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – New legislation proposed in N.J. would create a “portable benefits” system for...
First responders, marijuana and single payer health insurance are the top workers’ compensation-related issues for state...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new report utilizing claims data from Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, and...
Bruce Burk
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With more and more states legalizing marijuana for either recreational or medical...
Dallas, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Texas stripper has turned to GoFundMe after incurring more than $20,000...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A good bedside manner can make a tremendous difference in outcomes for...
Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Legislators in Tennessee hope new legislation will address that state’s problem with...
Los Angeles, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The public interest would not be served by temporarily blocking enforcement...
Culver City, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) It’s been nine months since the California Labor Commissioner’s Office slapped L.A....
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Since its discovery on December 20, the coronavirus has grown from a...
Santa Clara, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former Santa Clara police officer allegedly faked an injury in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) — Call center employees are the focus of new government-funded research to prevent...
Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Delta officials announced they will be replacing uniforms that many of the...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – This year is the tipping point for the open office appeal to...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – One of the best ways to lower workers’ compensation exposure is to...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – An upcoming court hearing will consider a class action suit by employees...
Dearborn, MI (WorkersCompensation.com) – More than 1,200 patients have reportedly been impacted by a data breach that occurred...
Denver, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) – It is no secret that the use of marijuana is becoming more...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Ensuring employees have a clear way to get into their place...
Andover, MA-(WorkersCompensation.com) Target Corp., has been cited by OSHA for having blocked emergency exits at two...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Among the worst possible types of industrial accidents which can occur are...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – The best outcome for an injured worker having a knee replacement is...
Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – The New Jersey Legislature is considering legislation that would designate accidents which...
Cottage Grove, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Four current and former teachers in the South Washington County School...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – High dollar workers’ compensation claims have been garnering much attention these days....
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – It is no secret that California law could make Uber’s business harder...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Emergency room visits involving opioid prescriptions are one of the risk factors...
Thank you to everyone who completed the WCI 2020 Planning Survey in December. With close to...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A court in New York state has found that a bus driver...
Secaucus, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) — Employers may want to rethink their drug policy if recent studies are...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A 5+ year initiative by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensastion.com) – A Florida workers’ compensation court has come out with a decision that...
San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new report has found that ride share drivers are more...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – This article discusses everyone’s favorite topic: the dentist. Most of the time...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Many savvy businesses are replacing the traditional workplace New Year’s resolutions of...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A federal judge has temporarily halted controversial legislation that would have given...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A federal judge has blocked a new law reclassifying gig workers and...
Braintree, MA (WorkersCompensation.com)- United Parcel Service Inc. has been cited by OSHA following allegations of exposing...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ Compensation insurers breathed a collective sigh of relief last month after...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Alcohol related deaths are down but more drivers admit to driving impaired,...
Knoxville, Tennessee (WorkersCompenstion.com) – Some health facilities may be hoping for a better year in 2020....
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Winter precipitation, along with strong winds are the perfect recipe for cold stress....
Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Plans for Amazon to add enhanced hands-on safety training for newly hired...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – New research suggests that the efforts made to avoid data breaches may...
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An Atlanta jury has awarded the estate of stuntman John Bernecker more...
Federal Way, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Washington man has been arraigned on a charge of first-degree...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With all the news surrounding the opioid crisis, we have seen many...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Industry experts have been espousing the benefits of an advocacy-based claims model...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Injured workers do not want to hear about their employer’s return-to-work expectations...
A new America’s Health Rankings report from UnitedHealth ranks states by their health ratings. While the...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Some of the protestors lined up outside the Chicago Amazon Go store...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Opioid deaths in New York hit a historical low in 2018. Gov....
Washington, D.C. (workersCompensation.com) – While veterans have valuable skills and experience to offer that are in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – In today’s ever changing healthcare landscape, it appears several factors can play...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Despite years of price decreases, the workers’ compensation line of business is...
Virginia Beach, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Four hundred and fifty employees in the city of Virginia Beach...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The much anticipated — or dreaded —drug formulary for the New York...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Recently WorkersCompensation.com reported that data breaches are an increasing concern for not just medical...
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Santa Ana, CA (WorkersCompenstion.com) The orthopedic surgeon infamous for an alleged long-term scheme for his role...
Crested Butte, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) – When 74-year-old Roxie Lypps was teaching two teenagers how to ski...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The objective in any workers’ compensation claim is to lower exposure and...
Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) alleges that...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Organizations trying to prevent motor vehicle crashes might want to tell employees...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – “Injured workers who start therapy within three days of injury require 38...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – AmTrust Financial Services recently released a report which showed that the highest workers’ compensation...
Sacramento, CA (workersCompensation.com) – California could have saved at least $20 million in workers’ compensation premiums...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – We all know that it’s important to make sure that you follow...
Wichita, KS (WorkersCompensation.com) – “Lessor Of” language in healthcare contracts and laws is usually difficult to...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With the opioid crisis in full swing, doctors are turning to alternative...
Josephine County, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) – A hemp-processing facility is accused of letting its workers live and...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The California Trucking Association has filed suit against the state of California...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The most hazardous class of retail workers are those in meat,...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – If a nurse at Ohio State University Medical Center injures himself at...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – All workers’ compensation claims can run into issues with a Daubert Objection....
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A survey by the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit association...
Kissimmee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Florida legislator is proposing a bill that would force the state’s...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s not often – if ever – you hear of state regulators...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Reviewing medical records goes hand-in-hand with managing a workers’ compensation claim. However,...
Sarasota, FL(WorkersCompensation.com) – A major turning point occurred in the workers’ compensation system last week. Revered...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) –While employment and wages covered under workers’ compensation are rising, the amount of...
North Augusta, SC (WorkersCompensation.com)- A South Carolina real estate developer had to pay $27,959 in back...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Several ridesharing companies have launched an initiative to ensure drivers have flexibility...
Sioux Falls, SD (WorkersCompensation.com) – While denying any illegalities, a South Dakota hospital system has agreed...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – There’s some good news about driving fatalities. The National Highway Traffic Safety...
Santa Clara County, CA (WorkersCompensation.com)- Millions of restaurant workers are affected by wage theft. However, these...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Medical marijuana has been controversial since it was introduced as legal in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Evidence-based medicine seems like such a good idea; using a systematic approach...
F.J. Thomas, Nancy Grover
Kalispell, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Within the last week, hospitals in Montana and Texas were hit with...
The Workers Compensation Institute (WCI), the national leader in workers’ compensation education, announced today the appointment...
WCI formed a Board of Advisors to guide the future of the Workers’ Compensation Institute and...
Austin, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Texas workers’ compensation physicians largely avoid discussing pain medications they prescribe to...
Cleveland, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) — Walgreens is now the only major defendant left in the nation’s first...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The key to ensuring employees with mental health issues do not impact...
Toni Sutton- Deangelico
Los Angeles, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former Los Angeles police officer faces charges of workers’ compensation...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Proving entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits from an occupational disease can be...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Contrary to the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S. since 2008, 80...
Baltimore, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study by researchers with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore suggests...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Centers of Excellence offer unique opportunities for the workers’ compensation system. While...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – In workers’ compensation proceedings, most cases resolve through settlement. However, the ones...
St. Paul, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Unions for food and commercial workers have filed a lawsuit against...
Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study from Washington State suggests that more than just work...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com)-When people go off to work every day, they expect that their employer will...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ Compensation Rates in Florida are projected to go down once again....
Jay, OK (WorkersCompensation.com) – Three men who allege they were forced to work for free at...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompenstion.com) – Legislation that would ease things a bit for insurers and others who...
Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – The government has released a study on paid leave from supplemental data that was...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new law on the books in Cal., may not be making...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Arthritis is the most common chronic disease in the workforce. Osteoarthritis, in...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ compensation fraud hurts everyone. It can cause premiums to go up,...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new survey about millennials who own and operate small businesses found...
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Niagara, WI (WorkersCompensation.com – Accusations of continually exposing workers to machine hazards have resulted in penalties...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Mental health disorders are among the most burdensome health concerns for employers...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ compensation and Social Security Disability share a unique relationship. While both...
Butte, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) –Montana’s State Fund will give money back to its safest policyholders, fund managers...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – What’s the best way to deal with an injured worker who just...
Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The California Legislature’s final approval of Assembly Bill 5 could be what...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – “Everyone remembers where they were when they learned the World Trade Center...
Sarasota FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is one of the most common and costly musculoskeletal...
Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The U.S. Department Of Justice has announced that drug company Mallinckrodt will...
Lubbock, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Texas appeals court has overruled a widow’s appeal for compensation in...
San Diego, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Fall protection once again tops the list for OSHA’s most cited...
Tumwater, WA- (Workerscompensation.com)- The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has cited a Washington-based...
Sarasota FL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – Would your organization shut down an operation or work process during peak...
Worcester, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to the US Attorney for Massachusetts, a man who oversaw two...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With many new cases being filed related to the opioid crisis, some...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A study released by Swiss research publisher Springer Nature suggests that workplace...
Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Florida employers waiting for the other shoe to drop following landmark...
Utica, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The New York Supreme Court has denied a worker the right to...
Maspeth, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced that about $6 million...
Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – When we typically think about the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), we...
Houma, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A Louisiana pressure washing business has been ordered to pay a former...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A handful of claims consume most of the costs in the workers’...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – There is no shortage of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma related to the...
Richland, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The federal government is continuing to fight a new Washington-state law that...
Orlando, FL (WorkersCompenation.com) – Why is it that some of us need a higher dose of...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – The real issue with mental health currently is not its alleged connection...
Sarasota, FL – (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new report shows that opioid prescribing rates for workers’ compensation...
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The US Department Of Justice issued a press release on a $300,000 healthcare fraud...
Orlando, FL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – What will the workers’ compensation system look like by 2030? Will it...
Bonneville County, ID (WorkersCompensation.com)- An Idaho Falls resident has been sentenced d to one year in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The number of Americans 65 and older either working or looking for...
Cambridge, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Money can’t buy everything. In the case of injured workers, more money...
Tony Sutton-Deangelico
Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A restaurant in a trendy area of Seattle has agreed to pay...
Dayton, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – The city of Dayton, Ohio recently adopted a policyprohibiting any use of nicotine for new...
Harrisburg, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A lack of adequate internal controls has landed the state’s insurance rating...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new report might allay concerns about potentially high costs from claims...
Salinas, CA (WorkersCompensation.com)-Ever since recreational marijuana became legal in California, officials have struggled to handle the...
Hoboken, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study highlighted by Stevens Institute of Technology shows that location of impact...
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Legislative reforms have resulted in $3 billion in annual savings to the...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Residents of Baltimore, Md., were recently told they would not receive water...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of roadway collisions, which...
San Diego, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The US Department Of Labor (USDOL) announced that a second judgement has been...
Dangerous heatwaves have swept across the United States this summer, with temperatures soaring in cities like...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A group of Kentucky miners sickened with Black Lung Disease said they...
Kimberly George
Each year I look forward to attending the Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference as it is truly...
Press Release: August 2, 2019 The Workers’ Compensation Institute announces the election of its new Board...
New York, NY (WorkersCompnstion.com) – Applied Underwriters has agreed to pay $3 million for what New...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) An overwhelming majority of workers would like their current employer to offer healthier...
Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While claim frequency has been decreasing overall in recent years, that...
Wallington, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Federal agents say a doctor was forced to write prescriptions for drugs...
Muncie, IN (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study published in Economics & Human Biology this week suggests there is a direct...
Wilmington, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) – A former health administrator has filed suit over workers’ compensation benefits against...
Olympia, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Obesity is not a justifiable reason to refuse hiring a job applicant...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – An investigation into Chicago’s longest serving alderman has found two boxes filled...
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The nation’s opioid epidemic is at least partially blamed for the demise...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – “There is a strong positive association between worker experiences of the insurance...
Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The legislature creates laws, not suggestions. Despite this, some businesses either believe...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers’ compensation stakeholders cite delayed medical treatment as one of their biggest...
Oklahoma City, OK (WorkersCompensation.com0 – There has been no shortage of opioid litigation in the past...
Berkeley, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study by The University of California at Berkeley economists Anna Godoey and Michael Reich...
Juneau, AK (WorkersCompensation.com) – Alaska state officials report that this year’s workers’ compensation rate decline is...
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Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Ten U.S. senators are asking McDonald’s CEO to “immediately adopt a comprehensive...
Westmoreland County, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The widow of a former corrections officer says she may file...
Itasca, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) – California has the lowest rate of preventable deaths, while West Virginia has...
Canton, Ohio (WorkerssCompensation.com)- Ohio Gratings Inc., described as ‘the industry leader in the manufacture of steel...
Huntington Valley, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The US Department of Justice announced that Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialist, Andrew...
Durham, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Injured workers who can stay at work or return as soon after...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Technology designed to make driving safer may have the exact opposite effect...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study from ADP Research Institute shows that American workers are less engaged than those...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – If you have found yourself dealing with a workers’ compensation claim and...
Hollywood, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A California law aimed at protecting gig workers at companies like Uber...
Oklahoma City, OK (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Oklahoma Supreme Court has effectively expanded the definition of ‘intentional...
Los Angeles, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Los Angeles Aquatics Division of the Department of Recreation and...
Boston, Massachusetts (WorkersCompensation.com)- A former Massachusetts trolley driver has been sentenced to three years and one...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – If you’re an adjuster, then you have probably found yourself trying to...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Structural design deficiencies, failure to recognize the magnitude of widening cracks, oversights...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – You may notice something different about the workplace during the next several...
The concept of rule in/rule out deals with the notion that an injured worker should have...
Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s now up to the State Senate to tackle the budget bill...
Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Generic drug maker Heritage Pharmaceuticals of Eatontown, New Jersey will pay $7...
Norfolk, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A carpenter’s fall off a bridge can’t be considered maritime work a...
A federal judge is poised to rule on a new lawsuit brought against the state of...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Having tired workers is more than just a simple annoyance. It’s a...
Columbus, OH (WorkersCopmpensation.com) – Ohio’s workers’ compensation agency said it will reimburse injured workers for various...
Arlington, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new study released by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America indicates that...
Hartford, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Nearly 10 years after a police officer was denied workers’ compensation benefits...
H. George Kagan
What is the NWCR? Brief History and mission statement: One score less six years ago, our...
Salt Lake City, UT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Last week, WorkersCompensation.comreported that Allstate had filed suit against two pain...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Mental health issues can have a significant impact on organizations. They can...
San Jose, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – While California legislators are working to pass legislation that would redefine...
Vancouver, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Washington Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) recently issued one of...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Getting injured workers back to function as soon as possible is a...
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompenstion.com) – “For the second year in a row total direct written premium in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – As the unofficial start of the summer season, it’s a good time...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – By the end of April, the number of workers’ compensation claims over...
Detroit, MI (WorkersCompensation.com) – Insurance giant Allstate has filed suit against two pain clinics and two...
Reynoldsburg, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensationhas proposed rebating almost all of employers’ workers’ compensation...
Orlando, FL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – There are roughly 3,000 board certified occupational physicians in the country. With...
Jacksonville, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The owner of a Florida construction company has been arrested in a...
Concord, New Hampshire (WorkersCompensation.com)- A local contractor was cited by OSHA for over $40,000 in fines...
Hartford, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Legislation to provide extended benefits to first responders who develop work-related Post...
Orlando, FL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – “We’re in an atypical environment right now,” said NCCI’s Chief Actuary Kathy...
The Workers’ Compensation Institute is excited to announce a partnership with the Alliance of Women in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – At least 764 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in the...
Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) –A new amendment to Tennessee’s Healthy Workplace Act may offer employers protection from lawsuits for...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While states are increasingly considering and/or adopting legislation to provide workers’ compensation...
What’s Inside? Article 1: Gallagher Bassett is Giving it Their All! Article 2: WCI’s GKTW Silent Auction Returns...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompenstion.com) – Employers concerned about the increasing use of marijuana among their workers, especially...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – OxyContin has become somewhat of a four letter word with the advent...
San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – “There’s a very high proportion of people using prescription pain relievers...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A pervasive trend for stakeholders in the complex workers’ compensation arena is...
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A New York state proposal that would make farmers subject to overtime...
San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers/payers spend an extra $50.47 on medical-only claims for each day...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Trying to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act can seem like...
Sugarcreek Township, Ohio (WorkersCompensation.com) – Earlier this month a worker died in a trench collapse at...
Stamford, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Mold exposure is no laughing matter. In fact, some research links exposure...
Frankfort, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Among the purchases made by the Kentucky workers’ compensation agency the Kentucky...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) issued a news release stating...
Middletown, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) – 35-year-old truck driver Jairo Solis has settled his workers’ compensation claim with...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Balancing the various paid leave of absence laws can make for confusing...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A fund set up to pay for injuries to for-hire drivers...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With the prevalence of the gig economy sweeping across the nation, naturally...
WCI 2019 Theme: Coast to Coast The Workers’ Compensation Institute is very excited to reveal the...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received reports of serious harm...
Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – With Virginia’s win over Texas Tech last night for the national title,...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The topic of workers’ compensation for athletes can be quite interesting; going...
Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – A recent case heard by the Tennessee Supreme Court highlights some complexities...
Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Being nice can pay dividends. Workers’ compensation managers at Continental Western...
Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A commitment to lifelong learning is critical for industry professionals going...
Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA(WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s imperative that business owners stay on top of their workers’ compensation policies;...
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Legislators in New York have authorized a $2 million transfer from...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – If your employees are coming to work sick, it might be costing...
Some workers may hate the growing trend for open office design, but it’s probably here to...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Mussels in Puget Sound have tested positive for opioids. That finding last...
Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A dilemma for insurers and self-insured employers about whether and how to...
Tulsa OK (WorkersCompensation.com) – The maker of OxyContin will pay out an estimated $270 million in...
Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Medicare is always on the minds of those who work in the...
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Jake Owen to perform at WCI 2019! We are excited to announce that chart-topping, singer/songwriter Jake...