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Michelle Kerr is Workers’ Compensation Editor and National Conference Chair for Risk & Insurance. She can be reached at [email protected].
Payers have a smart tool at their disposal to encourage settlement acceptance, reduce the risk of liability, and do the right thing by injured workers.
Worker-centric practices and policies are an integral part of this year’s Teddy Award winning workers’ comp programs.
Denise Parr, director of workers’ compensation for MGM Resorts International — which includes the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino — has decades of experience managing workers’ comp exposures on a large scale.
The vast majority of executives believe their organizations are following cyber resilience best practices. But more than half haven’t even completed a cyber risk assessment.
The 2018 Teddy Award winners built their programs around people, not claims, and offer proof that a worker-centric approach is a smarter way to operate.
An insurer found its insured, Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation, had four underlying claimants seeking damages for sexual abuse inflicted by priests.
These seven figures demonstrate the severity of the horrific wildfires that broke-out in California on November 8th. And as of today (November 16th), the fires are only 48% contained.
Claims about Tesla factory workers being put at risk are deeply troubling. Details that have come to light offer a useful guide to avoiding the hot seat the carmaker now sits in.
Simple injuries that spiral into catastrophic claims account for a disproportionate share of overall workers’ comp dollars. Understanding how we think about pain can go a long way toward developing effective treatment strategies.
Robots in workers’ comp will enhance providers’ ability to deliver high-quality care to injured workers and can help payers control pharmacy-related costs.
Research published two decades ago could hold the key to protecting lives and property — even against the wrath of blazes like the Camp and Woolsey Fires.
The University of Pennsylvania, a 2018 Teddy Award winner, turned the University’s workers’ comp program around, giving it a unified identity and the structure it needed to succeed.
Broadspire’s Marcos Iglesias and attorney Stuart Colburn will help employers and payers separate cannabis fact from cannabis fiction at NWCDC in Las Vegas.
In this article, you can see a picture of the Mexico Beach house that stood its ground in the face of Hurricane Michael.
Shake-ups are in store for food supply chains as climate change threatens the existence of many common crops consumers rely on every day.
Climate change and volatile weather events are turning once-arable land into inhospitable environments for a number of crops.
A new study by Aon and Pentland Analytics shows the adverse affects social media has had on reputational threats, doubling the cost of a incident and placing the company in the global spotlight.
Rebecca Cady, 2018 Risk All Star, minimized med-mal litigation risk by focusing on information-sharing and faster response to potential claims.
Advanced AI technologies are raising the stakes on the cyber ‘cat-and-mouse’ game between criminals and security professionals.