A 2021 Harvard Business School newsletter encouraged business leaders to take the long -term view rather than concentrating on quick returns.  This is sound advice for several aspects of the medical component of workers’ compensation, three […]

A broken leg from a work-related accident can be a terrible injury. There’s typically no worse break than if you fracture your femur. The femur bone, also known as the thigh bone, is the largest […]

Boca Raton, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Experts from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) shared a wide range of insights on how the workers compensation system is responding to workplace and workforce changes. The full […]

Cambridge, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Duration of temporary disability (TD) benefits per claim in Minnesota increased nearly one week in 2020 for non-COVID-19 claims. This was a key driver of the increase in indemnity benefits per […]

Washington, DC — A companion bill to the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195), passed by the House in April 2021, has been introduced in the Senate. The […]

More details from NCCI Chief Actuary Donna Glenn’s presentation yesterday… Claim costs are driven by employment, frequency (what percentage of workers gets hurt), the cost to provide medical care to those injured workers and the cost of […]

In the face of pandemic fatigue and gradual return to pre-pandemic levels of in-person events, travel, business operations and more, mistrust and misinformation around the COVID-19 vaccine threaten the prospect of sustainable pandemic recovery. Infection […]

On April 8, 2022, OSHA enacted a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to “protect employees from heat-related hazards and resulting injuries and illnesses in outdoor and indoor workplaces” where the heat index surpasses 80°F. The initiative targets more […]