Workers’ compensation insurers posted a combined ratio of 93.2 in 2025, as favorable loss reserve development and pricing cuts signal the long profitable market may be nearing a turn, according to AM Best.

Workers’ comp and group health treat the same patients in very different ways. A panel of clinicians who have worked in both says each system has lessons to borrow, and comp may have more to teach than it thinks.

Empathy isn’t a switch claims professionals can flip. Three industry leaders say sustaining it takes self-leadership, and leaders willing to model it.

Why physical therapy notes may be workers’ comp’s most underused source of early, predictive insight.

Injuries among workers aged 20 to 24 and over 65 climbed between 2019 and 2024 as pandemic-era shifts partially reversed, per the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

A veteran health care executive discusses how stronger provider partnerships, data-driven insights and collaborative network management can improve outcomes for injured workers, providers and payers alike.

Rising Medical Solutions’ latest benchmarking study finds the best claims organizations aren’t chasing different strategies. They’re just better at making them stick.

Claims Remain Rare but Frequency Has Grown, With Wide Variation by State, Industry and Worker Demographics, According to the Workers Compensation Research Institute

Higher-performing claims organizations achieve strong results by executing common industry priorities effectively rather than by managing simpler claim inventories, according to Rising Medical Solutions study.

Now is a great time for brokers to update their workers’ compensation playbook.

State lawmakers introduced a wave of bills tying portable benefits to independent-contractor status in 2026, reshaping the worker classification landscape tracked by the NCCI.

When A.I. works quietly in the background, claims professionals can spend less time managing information and more time improving claim outcomes.

CorVel’s CJ Cypcar examines why AI is reshaping claims work, while long-standing fundamentals — speed, communication, return-to-work, and human judgment — still determine outcomes.

Accommodated workers’ comp claims closed at roughly 60% lower total cost than unaccommodated ones, and adoption of tech-guided return-to-work programs has grown for three straight years, per Kinetic Insurance.

This is the fifth and final in a series of articles exposing what is driving the excessive recovery times and the high cost of workplace injuries. At 75, I don’t really consider myself naive. But I have to say, when it comes to navigating the business dynamics of the workers’ compensation industry, I was completely… View Article

For Ryan Murphy, Vice President of Product, Enterprise Claims at CorVel Corporation, the onus is on leaders in the industry to make sure knowledge transfer, technology-enabled triage of information, and courting the next generation of claims professionals remains at the forefront of organizational strategy.

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