The time has come for changes at the federal level. In fact it is way overdue. Too many injuries & illnesses prevailed by employer neglect thus increasing the insurance industry’s over all bottom line. Having the unfettered ability to injure workers or expose them to so many toxins is no way for any industry to flourish.
Auditing insurers should have been more comprehensive given the totality of the immensity of the insurers bottom line.
The Chamber of Commerce worries about job killers, well why not worry about employee killers. Along with federal oversight should be criminal charges for those who prevailed in neglecting the employee’s health & safety laws. This would not only deter in this neglect but a monumental bona fide prevention of such criminal acts. The federal oversight should include the many illegal acts of surveilling which include phone tapping, computer hijacking( and theft of evidence to public officials & agencies) but also stop the eternal spying, the following of an injured/disabled worker but also the causation of car accidents TO the injured and also to their families. Yes, it is certainly time for the federal government to take over oversight on the insurance industry, as it is, it was to start in 1972. The insurance industry has gotten far too largess on not only people’s misery but all of the unnecessary misery it causes.
Denise, excellent overview of WC issues for 2016. You make a VERY critical point about the gap in knowledge/experience with 25% of insurance professionals retiring by 2016 (McKinsey data cited by Kimberly George, Sedgwick). Education is at the very heart of every profession, we all learned from teachers. This knowledge gap could not come at a worse time as healthcare is in an epochal era of transition.As both a teacher and physical therapist by training as well as a seasoned veteran of workers’ comp less intervention and more education may be the new mantra.
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The time has come for changes at the federal level. In fact it is way overdue. Too many injuries & illnesses prevailed by employer neglect thus increasing the insurance industry’s over all bottom line. Having the unfettered ability to injure workers or expose them to so many toxins is no way for any industry to flourish.
Auditing insurers should have been more comprehensive given the totality of the immensity of the insurers bottom line.
The Chamber of Commerce worries about job killers, well why not worry about employee killers. Along with federal oversight should be criminal charges for those who prevailed in neglecting the employee’s health & safety laws. This would not only deter in this neglect but a monumental bona fide prevention of such criminal acts. The federal oversight should include the many illegal acts of surveilling which include phone tapping, computer hijacking( and theft of evidence to public officials & agencies) but also stop the eternal spying, the following of an injured/disabled worker but also the causation of car accidents TO the injured and also to their families. Yes, it is certainly time for the federal government to take over oversight on the insurance industry, as it is, it was to start in 1972. The insurance industry has gotten far too largess on not only people’s misery but all of the unnecessary misery it causes.
Denise, excellent overview of WC issues for 2016. You make a VERY critical point about the gap in knowledge/experience with 25% of insurance professionals retiring by 2016 (McKinsey data cited by Kimberly George, Sedgwick). Education is at the very heart of every profession, we all learned from teachers. This knowledge gap could not come at a worse time as healthcare is in an epochal era of transition.As both a teacher and physical therapist by training as well as a seasoned veteran of workers’ comp less intervention and more education may be the new mantra.