When managers at Bon Secours Virginia Health System started analyzing workers’ compensation cases, they noticed a bad combination: Older nurses...
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Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace...
In Youngstown, Ohio, the employment problem is not a shortage of jobs. Nor is it a shortage of workers. The...
In 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 2.9 million non-fatal workplace accidents occurred that year. Of this,...
Value-based contracting (VBC) widely used in the healthcare system is now a hot topic in the workers’ comp industry, according...
A Riverside Superior Court jury awarded Steven Meier $17 million after he had his right leg amputated below the knee...
Like their brethren in property/casualty and life/health, workers’ compensation claims professionals write a lot. They write to physicians, lawyers, claimants,...
Catastrophic injuries impact the severity and complexity of workers’ compensation claims. In a two part Inside Workers’ Comp podcast series,...
With many states making changes to rules governing reimbursement for physician-dispensed pharmaceuticals, the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) released a...
As a result of the types of workers’ compensation accidents and injuries that occur, case managers often see a significant...