My colleague David DePaolo titled one of his recent blog entries, “Stop Return to Work.” To him, return-to-work programs are overhyped. The worker’s motivation is decisive. Maybe she’s… Read more »
Tracy Morgan’s crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in June 2014 has led to a paradigmatic milestone in vehicle safety. A Walmart trailer truck driver who rear-ended… Read more »
Workers’ compensation insurers lose a lot more money from policyholders who pay less than they should in premiums than from injured workers who received indemnity benefits… Read more »
Initiatives to radically change the 100-year-old workers’ compensation system are growing, despite the daunting state legislative barriers of status quo defenders and inertia.
Now it turns out… Read more »
Three million work injuries occur a year, some 900,000 of them (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) involving at least one work day of… Read more »
One can look at any challenge as an opportunity. In this way, a surge in federal and state return-to-work protections offers career opportunities for adept individual… Read more »
Two RICO suits involving workers’ compensation have been settled before trial. One in 2012 in Colorado involved Walmart and Concentra. The other now being settled… Read more »
America, you need to see this from my point of view: a dark red Flame Seedless grape. I know how nice humans are, but they can do… Read more »
The profitability of workers' compensation has attracted a lot of attention of late.
In part, that’s because the insurers have been celebrating. The NCCI’s state… Read more »
The workforce has indeed been aging. In contrast to younger age groups, the workforce participation rate of those over 55 is increasing. In 2000, the… Read more »
