Lower pay for women in the field may be due to lower educational credentials or less time on the job.

The leave management environment is increasingly complex, and costly.

Pharmacogentic testing has the potential to save money and even lives, but a great deal of skepticism remains.

Speakers identify key compliance risks presented by the ACA and how to head off vulnerabilities.

The risk to brand or reputational damage was seen as the top concern of risk managers, who also ranked cyber risk as a top 10 global risk for the first time.

As treatments including medical marijuana gain traction in the workers’ comp space, employers need new strategies to manage the risks and contain costs.

One company’s changing of TPAs provided valuable and unexpected risk management lessons for others to glean from.

Risk committees help identify risk, gather information, implement risk management programs and create risk-aware cultures.

Politics trumped rational decision-making and put businesses in the cross hairs of potentially having lapses in coverage.

Ironically, opioid pain medications can induce chronic pain rather than suppress it.

An outcomes-based litigation strategy calls for benchmarking workers’ compensation attorney performance.

It was cold outside for RIMS 2014 but The Wolf made some attendees hot with anger.

Public risk managers are focused on cyber exposures, marijuana legalization risks and effectively working with law enforcement.

Violence and unrest are rampant, but risk mitigation strategies can ensure success in the region.

Analytics help identify actionable claims issues, but some tools are just “smoke and mirrors.”

A comprehensive claims strategy is crucial to handling complex claims.

Hotels have a new environmental worry now that some are using hotel rooms to manufacture meth.

RIMS survey found that chief risk officers’ salaries grew 7.5 percent in past five years.