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Michelle Kerr is Workers’ Compensation Editor and National Conference Chair for Risk & Insurance. She can be reached at [email protected].
This year’s Teddy Award winners offer a glimpse of what comes next in workers’ comp — a world where we don’t need to say we advocate for injured workers, we just do it.
For most municipalities, achieving superior injury outcomes while slashing program costs is a tall order. For Arizona’s Teddy-Award-winning City of Surprise, trust and respect is the foundation of that achievement.
As he kicks off NWCDC, Dr. Drew Pinsky will address the unique issues of addiction treatment in workers’ comp, and about returning people to flourishing lives.
Using AI, Susan Shemanski freed up 3/4 of her safety manager team to focus on injury prevention. The result: a stunning 47% reduction in injury severity.
Distributed ledger technology has the potential to improve supply chains worldwide and to minimize product recall losses. Now is the right time to prepare for widespread adoption.
CNA’s Nick Graf says there’s plenty about the insurance industry to appeal to the tech-minded — but first it needs to finally embrace technology.
The departing chair of DMEC’s board reflects on her 30-year mission to inform employers and elevate the profession of disability and absence management.
Managing the pervasive risk of fatigue takes a layered approach that includes leveraging data, replacing outdated processes and procedures and promoting a culture of wellness.
Pro-gamers and office computer users have more in common than you’d think — at least in their injury risk profiles. One surgeon is sharing tools that will help them both.
Employers have a broad range of options at their disposal to create a work environment conducive to better mental health for all employees.
Employers can address mental health risks by fostering a culture of openness, and offering resources that target specific mental health stressors.
This definitive timeline of cannabis legalization in the U.S. shows the reach of marijuana throughout the country, leading to more employers seeking impairment testing.
Uncapped spending on catastrophic claims and sky-high price tags for specialty drugs top the list of key employee benefits issues impacting employers.
NCCI’s latest report explores 12 years of data, revealing workplace injury trends by age, gender and industry sector.
Amped-up settlements and jury awards are creating upward pressure on the global liability market, while new technology offers an opportunity for insurers to be more proactive.
When a franchisor client was confronted with the limitations of a traditional cyber program, it collaborated with 2019 Cyber Power Broker® Souwei Ford to boldly go where no cyber coverage had gone before.
With many coverage questions yet to be answered about GDPR fines and penalties, there are a handful of solutions available for those who don’t want to take a wait-and-see approach.
It’s time to start a real dialogue about the talent shortage in workers’ comp, and about investing in efforts to cultivate tomorrow’s workers’ comp leaders.
A performance report on the first five years of California’s independent bill review program reveals that claims adjusters’ billing decisions rarely align with how the state workers’ comp system sees things.
A proposed bill in California aims to score a win for gender parity — by way of a workers’ comp presumptive law.
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