NCCI Says 2% of COVID-19 Work Comp Claims May Result in Permanent Disability October 16, 2020 By Jim Sams If COVID-19 behaves like other workers’ compensation lung and disease claims, about two out of 100 cases may result in...
Report Shows Insurers Recognizing ‘Mega’ Claims More Quickly August 26, 2020 The share of “mega” workers’ compensation claims — those expected to cost $3 million or more — climbed steadily since...
Economist Says COVID-19 Likely to Strip Profits Out of Work Comp July 24, 2020 By Jim Sams The workers’ compensation line is unlikely to generate a profit this year and may not recover in 2021, an insurance...
Vehicle Accidents an Exception Amid Declining Number of Work Injuries June 25, 2020 By Jim Sams While the frequency of workers’ compensation claims has continued a decades-long decline, the number of work injuries caused by motor...
More States Push COVID-19 Claims to Work Comp; Potential Cost Anyone’s Guess May 19, 2020 By Jim Sams Regulators and lawmakers in more states are demanding that workers who claim they were sickened by COVID-19 get a fair...
Work Comp May Need Backstop as Presumptions Push Claim Costs into Billions May 11, 2020 By Jim Sams An executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week is the most aggressive yet among the directives issued by...
NCCI: COVID-19 Will Cost Billions Even With Modest Infection Rates April 28, 2020 By Jim Sams If only 10 percent of health care workers contract COVID-19 and all of their claims are deemed compensable, workers’ compensation...
Regulators and Lawmakers Introducing Workers’ Comp to COVID-19 April 20, 2020 By Jim Sams Sympathetic state lawmakers and regulators in states both red and blue promise to make COVID-19 a major cost driver for...
Long Trend of Declining Workplace Accident Rate Stalls in 2018 November 13, 2019 By Jim Sams The workplace injury rate for private-sector workers has been dropping year after year for decades. But 2018 was not one...