Sedgwick has finalized the purchase of global loss adjusting, claims management and risk solutions firm Cunningham Lindsey and its subsidiaries. The combined organization—including the subsidiaries of Sedgwick, Vericlaim and Cunningham Lindsey, with select exceptions—will move toward operating globally under the …
Throughout this series, I have stressed the importance of connecting workers’ comp patients with great doctors at their time of need and how this results in an average of a 10 percent reduction in claims costs. I’ve also talked about …
I kicked off this series by detailing my argument for why physician quality is the single most important aspect of a claim — efficient and effective care is far more impactful than discounted care. Now, I want to expand on …
NORCAL Mutual Expands MPLI Offerings to Tennessee NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company announced that it is now offering coverage to health care professionals in Tennessee. This is the latest in NORCAL’s national expansion, which now reaches 39 states, including the District …
Is this claimant supposed to be off work? Did I get enough discount on the services? Were those services even necessary? I would argue that the question everyone should be asking instead is: Who is your doctor? After all, the …
You may have heard some buzz about machine learning (ML), but what exactly is it? And, more importantly, how does it relate to you? ML essentially refers to the phenomenon of computers and other devices that appear to be intelligent …
Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overdoses from prescription opioids started to increase in the mid-90s, and since 1999, the amount of prescription opioids sold in the U.S. …
CLARA Analytics Launches PUMA Search Engine to Help Insurance Carriers Reduce Workers’ Compensation Costs CLARA analytics, a division of LeanTaaS, a Silicon Valley healthcare SaaS provider, announced the commercial availability of PUMA, a search engine that helps insurance carriers and …
In the famous comedy by William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew,” the main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, uncooperative shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio breaks down her …
Workers’ compensation is essentially a collection of interrelated actions taken by the employer, payer, provider and injured worker in the service of the injured worker’s recovery and return to work. Putting the injured worker at the center of this activity …