Michele Haas of One Call discusses her vision for the company’s financial strategy, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability, and leveraging her extensive experience in health care to improve outcomes for injured workers.

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a crucial role beyond price negotiations, focusing on clinical management, network strategies, and service. Effective PBMs manage costs, enhance care, and ensure transparency and security, addressing unique workers’ comp needs.

In sports, the effort to get the injured worker back in the game as fast as possible is secondary to the cost of doing so. So why is workers’ comp still making cost control the primary driver?

Experts in this one-hour webinar will discuss dozens of data points that were garnered from an industry survey of more than 1300 frontline claims professionals.

If everyone committed just one day a year to thinking through the risks and compiling an actionable plan, insureds and their employees would gain significant peace of mind and lives would be saved.

Accommodations can help reduce claims costs and bring injured employees back to work. They just have to be implemented correctly.

Workers’ compensation underwriters frequently emphasize their focus on the wellbeing of injured employees. Does that concern extend to their own claims adjusters?

Discover the benefits of timely physical therapy in enhancing patient recovery and reducing claim costs.

Darrell Mathis is building an exemplary claims program for the third-largest city in the United States.

Swiss Re analysis highlights potential headwinds for U.S. workers’ compensation insurers after a decade of strong profitability.

At RISKWORLD 2024, Jean Feldman, senior director of managed care at Sentry Insurance, sat down with Risk & Insurance to talk behavioral health in workers’ comp.

The Whole Worker model is placing the injured worker at the center of care, taking into account their emotional wellbeing and working to create a sense of calm to their anxiety-inducing injuries.

Workers’ comp and employment law aren’t the same — but they do have some overlap.

With weight loss medications coming into demand, could there be a place in workers’ compensation to utilize these drugs to help injured workers?

Safety first, today, tomorrow, always. Progress without worker pain is possible, whatever comes our way next.

Workers’ comp was once slow to implement technology. Now, it’s catching up quickly.

Engaging with behavioral health factors that can delay recovery early on can be a boon for injured workers and their employers alike.

Barry Scott has encountered a number of unique risk management challenges. Join us in offering cheers to his career and retirement.

Mike Hessling, Gallagher Bassett’s CEO, North America, discusses the company’s commitment to service excellence, its unique approach to talent acquisition, and the potential risks and rewards of incorporating AI into the claims process.

Augmenting human insights and striking an appropriate balance between maximizing work output and managing the emotional complexities inherent in workers’ compensation cases and claims is essential.