Houston Medical Health Care System required its employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in March. By May, several employees filed suit against the hospital.
By issuing an emergency temporary standard so late in the pandemic, OSHA is causing speculation that will change infectious disease safety protocol for years to come.
Many thought leaders accurately predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic would not have a negative impact on workers’ compensation claims outcomes. But from a statistical perspective, the pandemic did warp workers’ comp pharmacy data.
This WCRI webinar compares data from non-workers’ comp patients to workers’ comp patients who all underwent lumbar spinal surgeries and had readmission and reoperation instances.
COVID-19 mentally exhausted already strained health care professionals. Here’s how we can build up the mental health of health care providers post pandemic.
In reflecting on CorVel’s 30-year journey, Gordon Clemons, one of its founders, shares insights on what it takes to strengthen a workers’ compensation program and plan for the future.
After years of an impersonal culture that focused on transaction management, workers’ compensation is often looked at through a negative lens instead of as a benefit — but that is all changing.
While the future of claims management and adjusting is moving towards automation, there is still a way to foster the necessary human connection in the workers’ comp space.
Opportunities revealed by the pandemic are too valuable to let slip away as restrictions ease. What gems will you mine? Four top workers’ comp leaders are ready to share what they’ve learned.