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Death Toll From Cancer for 9/11 Responders Expected to Outnumber Victims of Attack Liz Carey

CA: Groups Help Female Janitors with Workplace Safety Improvements Liz Carey

Opioids Can Interfere and Complicate David Langham

The Smaller Technology Gets, the Bigger Our Opportunities in Workers’ Comp Bob Wilson (From Bob’s Cluttered Desk)

Familiar Numbers Julius Young

How Movement at Work Can Make a Difference: An Ergonomics Update Phil Yacuboski

NY: Correctional Dept. Work Comp Claims Are on the Rise Toni Sutton

WA: Amazon Responds to Allegations of Poor Working Conditions Liz Carey

CA Company to Offer Work Comp Insurance to the Cannabis Industry Liz Carey

The Search for Ways To Deter Over-Prescription Of Opioids in Work Comp Continues… FJ Thomas

CA Supreme Court Upholds Appeals Court Decision in King v. CompPartners Liz Carey

The CA Supreme Court Speaks Julius Young

4-1-1 on Comp: Update on Independent Contractors Bruce Burk

HI Flood Updates from Honolulu and Hilo Liz Carey

Safe and Sound Week Wrap-Up Phil Yacuboski

A Star in Sports: Emmy-Award Winning Sports Caster Keynotes WCI 2018 Dara Barney

WCI 2018: Why ‘People, Places and Things’ Matter to Work Comp Dara Barney

Taking Off to New Planets: Let’s Talk About Workers’ Recovery at WCI 2018 Dara Barney

Beyond the Cookie Cutter: WCI 2018 Brings a Diversity and Inclusion Panel to ‘Walk the Talk’ Dara Barney

It’s a WCI 2018 Wrap: Taking a Comprehensive Look at What You Missed Dara Barney

Tower MSA Partners’ WCI-TV Segments to Share Advice on Settling Workers’ Compensation Claims

LA Employers Face Fines Following Misclassification Crackdown Liz Carey

Construction Site Risks are On the Rise Chriss Swaney

OH: Agents to Receive New Bulletproof Vests Toni Sutton

Weather Causes Injury, Concerns on Both Coasts Liz Carey

West Coast Fires Continue to Take Toll on Firefighters Liz Carey

FAIA teams up with WCI for agents track Dave Newell

NY: Ruling that Uber Drivers are Employees Could Impact ‘Gig Economy’ Liz Carey

Deadly Degrees: Excessive Heat Is Hazardous to Those That Work Outside Toni Sutton

Bullying: From the Backyard to the Boardroom? Chriss Swaney

WA: More than 40 Workers Test Positive for Radiation after Nuke Site Clean-Up Liz Carey

4-1-1 on Comp: Disability in FL Heart Disease and Hypertension Claims Bruce Burk

Spotlight: ‘Secondary Payer’ Sessions at WCI Michelle Allan of the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC)

Risky Business: Stunt Doubles Liz Carey

KY: Federal Officials Charge Mine Operators with Violating Safety Legislation Liz Carey

You Don’t Have to Hire the Psychologist, But You Must Understand the Psychology WorkersCompensation.com President and CEO Robert Wilson

Confusion and Disconnects in Medicine David Langham

News at the North Carolina Industrial Commission National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

WorkersCompensation.com Legislative Update: July 2018 Liz Carey

Work Comp Rebates in OH Join Lower Premiums in Other States Liz Carey

Rousmaniere: Faces from 9/11 Peter Rousmaniere

CDC: More than 22M People Are Exposed to Noise Risks at Work Phil Yacuboski

The WCIRB Reports Julius Young

Breakout for Risk Management Steve Rissman, WCI Program Chair

Coming to WCI? Help Kids’ Chance Give Kids the World WorkersCompensation.com President and CEO Bob Wilson (Bob’s Cluttered Desk)

FL Officials Arrest 12 Unlicensed Contractors in Sting Operation Liz Carey

Risky Business: Fireworks Employees at Much Less Risk than Fireworks Consumers Liz Carey

Rousmaniere: Making Sense of the Turmoil Over Immigration Peter Rousmaniere

Alternative Therapies Gain Ground, But Still Have a Long Way to Go Liz Carey

Industry Keynote Panel Steve Rissman, WCI Program Chair

Major Supreme Court Decision Will Affect Public Sector Employees, and Could Reach Private Sector Workers in the Future Dara Barney

Workplace Shooting at MD Newspaper Liz Carey

OK Supreme Court Rules On AMA Guide; PPD Liz Carey

Risky Business: Circus Performers at Lower Risk of Injury or Accident; but Many Companies Don’t Carry Work Comp, per Industry Expert Liz Carey

Who Will Win This Year’s Theme Contest? Workers’ Compensation Institute

TX: Former TDI Work Comp Commissioner Passes Baton to Previous Gov. Policy Advisor Dara Barney

AIA and PCI Announce Merger Discussions Liz Carey

Rousmaniere: How Spinal Cord Injury Care Has Improved Peter Rousmaniere

WV Supreme Court Rules Insurance Companies Can’t Reclaim Overpayments Liz Carey

Black Lung Fund, to Help Ailing Miners, is in Trouble, Per Report Liz Carey

Technology Integration: Working to Improve Comp Claims Chriss Swaney

AIA and PCI Announce Merger Discussions Liz Carey

CA Labor Commission: Cheesecake Factory Liable for Unpaid Wages; Damages to 559 Janitors Liz Carey

First Responders See Progress in 32 States for Comp Coverage Chriss Swaney

4-1-1 on Comp: Marijuana Dispensaries and Workers’ Compensation Bruce Burk

The Burning Question – What can be done to Prevent and Treat Burns? Dr. Zaydon

Appeals Court Overturns KS Work Comp Rule Liz Carey

Panic Buttons: CA Preps to Add New Protections for Hotel Workers Chriss Swaney

Celebrities Tapped for Labor Law Violations Liz Carey

4-1-1 on Comp: Social Media and Misrepresentation Defenses in Work Comp Bruce Burk

Insureon Study: Nearly One Third of Small Businesses Don’t know if They Need Comp Coverage Liz Carey

San Francisco City Attorney Asks Uber and Lyft for Driver Wage Info Liz Carey

Another Rate Decrease Julius Young

Cracks Found in Bridge Hours Before Deadly Collapse Dismissed by Officials, per NTSB Liz Carey

Engaged Employees Have Lower Accident Rates and Absenteeism, Per a Recent Study Liz Carey

Building a Better Recovering Worker – The Advocate, The Adversary and The Addled Bob Wilson

NY Inspector General Charges 10 Companies with Work Comp/Medicaid Fraud Liz Carey

WV Appeals Court Upholds Denial of Work Comp Benefits to Widow Liz Carey

Italian Hacking Group Attacks NM’s Work Comp Website Liz Carey

Expensive Payments and High Insurance Rates Chriss Swaney

Death Toll From Cancer for 9/11 Responders Expected to Outnumber Victims of Attack

Liz Carey

CA: Groups Help Female Janitors with Workplace Safety Improvements

Liz Carey

Opioids Can Interfere and Complicate

David Langham

The Smaller Technology Gets, the Bigger Our Opportunities in Workers’ Comp

Bob Wilson (From Bob’s Cluttered Desk)

Familiar Numbers

Julius Young

How Movement at Work Can Make a Difference: An Ergonomics Update

Phil Yacuboski

NY: Correctional Dept. Work Comp Claims Are on the Rise

Toni Sutton

WA: Amazon Responds to Allegations of Poor Working Conditions

Liz Carey

CA Company to Offer Work Comp Insurance to the Cannabis Industry

Liz Carey

The Search for Ways To Deter Over-Prescription Of Opioids in Work Comp Continues…

FJ Thomas

CA Supreme Court Upholds Appeals Court Decision in King v. CompPartners

Liz Carey

The CA Supreme Court Speaks

Julius Young

4-1-1 on Comp: Update on Independent Contractors

Bruce Burk

HI Flood Updates from Honolulu and Hilo

Liz Carey

Safe and Sound Week Wrap-Up

Phil Yacuboski

A Star in Sports: Emmy-Award Winning Sports Caster Keynotes WCI 2018

Dara Barney

WCI 2018: Why ‘People, Places and Things’ Matter to Work Comp

Dara Barney

Taking Off to New Planets: Let’s Talk About Workers’ Recovery at WCI 2018

Dara Barney

Beyond the Cookie Cutter: WCI 2018 Brings a Diversity and Inclusion Panel to ‘Walk the Talk’

Dara Barney

It’s a WCI 2018 Wrap: Taking a Comprehensive Look at What You Missed

Dara Barney

LA Employers Face Fines Following Misclassification Crackdown

Liz Carey

Construction Site Risks are On the Rise

Chriss Swaney

OH: Agents to Receive New Bulletproof Vests

Toni Sutton

Weather Causes Injury, Concerns on Both Coasts

Liz Carey

West Coast Fires Continue to Take Toll on Firefighters

Liz Carey

FAIA teams up with WCI for agents track

Dave Newell

NY: Ruling that Uber Drivers are Employees Could Impact ‘Gig Economy’

Liz Carey

Deadly Degrees: Excessive Heat Is Hazardous to Those That Work Outside

Toni Sutton

Bullying: From the Backyard to the Boardroom?

Chriss Swaney

WA: More than 40 Workers Test Positive for Radiation after Nuke Site Clean-Up

Liz Carey

4-1-1 on Comp: Disability in FL Heart Disease and Hypertension Claims

Bruce Burk

Spotlight: ‘Secondary Payer’ Sessions at WCI

Michelle Allan of the Medicare Advocacy Recovery Coalition (MARC)

Risky Business: Stunt Doubles

Liz Carey

KY: Federal Officials Charge Mine Operators with Violating Safety Legislation

Liz Carey

You Don’t Have to Hire the Psychologist, But You Must Understand the Psychology

WorkersCompensation.com President and CEO Robert Wilson

Confusion and Disconnects in Medicine

David Langham

News at the North Carolina Industrial Commission

National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

WorkersCompensation.com Legislative Update: July 2018

Liz Carey

Work Comp Rebates in OH Join Lower Premiums in Other States

Liz Carey

Rousmaniere: Faces from 9/11

Peter Rousmaniere

CDC: More than 22M People Are Exposed to Noise Risks at Work

Phil Yacuboski

The WCIRB Reports

Julius Young

Breakout for Risk Management

Steve Rissman, WCI Program Chair

Coming to WCI? Help Kids’ Chance Give Kids the World

WorkersCompensation.com President and CEO Bob Wilson (Bob’s Cluttered Desk)

FL Officials Arrest 12 Unlicensed Contractors in Sting Operation

Liz Carey

Risky Business: Fireworks Employees at Much Less Risk than Fireworks Consumers

Liz Carey

Rousmaniere: Making Sense of the Turmoil Over Immigration

Peter Rousmaniere

Alternative Therapies Gain Ground, But Still Have a Long Way to Go

Liz Carey

Industry Keynote Panel

Steve Rissman, WCI Program Chair

Major Supreme Court Decision Will Affect Public Sector Employees, and Could Reach Private Sector Workers in the Future

Dara Barney

Workplace Shooting at MD Newspaper

Liz Carey

OK Supreme Court Rules On AMA Guide; PPD

Liz Carey

Risky Business: Circus Performers at Lower Risk of Injury or Accident; but Many Companies Don’t Carry Work Comp, per Industry Expert

Liz Carey

Who Will Win This Year’s Theme Contest?

Workers’ Compensation Institute

TX: Former TDI Work Comp Commissioner Passes Baton to Previous Gov. Policy Advisor

Dara Barney

AIA and PCI Announce Merger Discussions

Liz Carey

Rousmaniere: How Spinal Cord Injury Care Has Improved

Peter Rousmaniere

WV Supreme Court Rules Insurance Companies Can’t Reclaim Overpayments

Liz Carey

Black Lung Fund, to Help Ailing Miners, is in Trouble, Per Report

Liz Carey

Technology Integration: Working to Improve Comp Claims

Chriss Swaney

AIA and PCI Announce Merger Discussions

Liz Carey

CA Labor Commission: Cheesecake Factory Liable for Unpaid Wages; Damages to 559 Janitors

Liz Carey

First Responders See Progress in 32 States for Comp Coverage

Chriss Swaney

4-1-1 on Comp: Marijuana Dispensaries and Workers’ Compensation

Bruce Burk

The Burning Question – What can be done to Prevent and Treat Burns?

Dr. Zaydon

Appeals Court Overturns KS Work Comp Rule

Liz Carey

Panic Buttons: CA Preps to Add New Protections for Hotel Workers

Chriss Swaney

Celebrities Tapped for Labor Law Violations

Liz Carey

4-1-1 on Comp: Social Media and Misrepresentation Defenses in Work Comp

Bruce Burk

Insureon Study: Nearly One Third of Small Businesses Don’t know if They Need Comp Coverage

Liz Carey

San Francisco City Attorney Asks Uber and Lyft for Driver Wage Info

Liz Carey

Another Rate Decrease

Julius Young

Cracks Found in Bridge Hours Before Deadly Collapse Dismissed by Officials, per NTSB

Liz Carey

Engaged Employees Have Lower Accident Rates and Absenteeism, Per a Recent Study

Liz Carey

Building a Better Recovering Worker – The Advocate, The Adversary and The Addled

Bob Wilson

NY Inspector General Charges 10 Companies with Work Comp/Medicaid Fraud

Liz Carey

WV Appeals Court Upholds Denial of Work Comp Benefits to Widow

Liz Carey

Italian Hacking Group Attacks NM’s Work Comp Website

Liz Carey

Expensive Payments and High Insurance Rates

Chriss Swaney

Hospital Violence is on the Rise

Liz Carey