Cambridge,MA(WorkersCompensation.com) – As concerns about behavioral health problems increased in recent years, the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) heard through system stakeholder interviews that early screening for psychosocial risk factors is important to prevent delayed […]

Trenton,NJ(WorkersCompensation.com) – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL), the New Jersey State Industrial Safety Committee (NJSISC), and the U.S Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today signed an […]

Phoenix,AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – A 30-year-old worker succumbed to injuries after an incident at the Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse at the Gila River Indian Community near Chandler. A federal investigation determined the fatality could have been […]

Fremont,OH(WorkersCompensation.com) - A federal workplace safety investigation into how a 25-year-old manufacturing worker suffered serious arm burns in February that required hospitalization, determined his Ohio employer failed to follow required federal safety standards that might […]

Washington,DC (WorkCompAcademy) - In 2015, Congress passed the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act to advance the effectiveness of civil monetary penalties and to maintain their deterrent effect. Under the Act, agencies are […]

A just-released study shows people with health insurance are a little less likely to die than those without insurance.  That is not surprising; preventive care, access to medications to control diabetes, hypertension, depression, cancer and the like, and […]

Some days, we’ll come across a certain event – one that isn’t too rare, but also isn’t too common – and simply brush it off. “It probably doesn’t mean anything,” we say to ourselves. But […]

Columbus,OH(WorkersCompensation.com) - Nationwide has named Julie Hespe as the head of Underwriting Performance for the company’s Excess & Surplus/Specialty team. Julie’s team, the Underwriting & Product Performance Center of Excellence, will focus on portfolio profitability, […]