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Roberto Ceniceros is a retired senior editor of Risk & Insurance® and the former chair of the National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference® & Expo. Read more of his columns and features.
COVID-19 impacted everything, including the quest to connect injured workers’ kids with scholarship funds.
Cannabis shows promise as a non-opioid treatment for pain, but dosing uncertainty and the plant’s Schedule 1 status will need to be resolved first.
The speaker selection team for the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo has released a wish list of topics they’d like to see presented during 2019’s event in Las Vegas.
Don’t miss an opportunity to speak at the 28th annual National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo. All speaker submissions are due in by Feb. 22, 2019.
Fear of violating privacy is one reason why more organizations don’t reveal data that could help the children of injured workers get assistance.
The Red Sox team manager Alex Cora rebuilt team culture with a player-centric approach — a common theme with the advocacy-focused workers’ comp claims-management style gaining ground among employers.
On behalf of everyone who worked throughout the year to develop our conference program, we hope this year’s program meets your educational, networking, and entertainment needs and expectations.
Value-based care will transform the way that medical providers treat injured workers. At the upcoming National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference, experts from Healthesystems will explain how it can work at your organization.
Payers must devote more attention to identifying which cases merit investigation and which tactics produce the best results.
A new breed of white-collar robots is marching into the workers’ compensation world, promising they will improve life for claims payers and injured workers.
Insurers are prosecuting premium fraud, because it’s creating unfair competition for honest businesses unable to compare with cheats reducing their expenses by failing to care for their workers.
Explanation-of-benefit statements, like those mailed to health care insurance patients, could spur more workers’ comp claimants into reporting fraudulent activities.
Analytics and good old-fashioned detective work have been singled out by investigators as key components in dismantling organized fraud rings.
Workers’ comp opioid addiction is a murky area. While we are helping curb new addictions, we’re still failing a number of employees already dependent.
The steady creep of air tainted with dangerous particulate matter could make it far more challenging for employers in wildfire regions to protect outdoor workers from illness or injury.
A new report exploring trends in workers’ comp claims denied has the potential to upend our approach to claims.
Employers look to the DMEC conference to share real-world problems and solutions with their peers in the trenches.
Hospital-system mergers reduce competition, elevating the importance of cost-containment measures for workers’ comp payers.
Some suggest hallucinogenic drugs can cure depression plaguing injured workers.
A nation that benefits from the labor of undocumented workers should also care for them when they’re injured in the course of performing that labor.
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