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One of my favorite Workers Comp people in the workers comp industry forwarded me a link to download a copy of the 2021 Workers Comp Benchmarking Study. (c) Rising Medical Solutions – used with permission […]

Yesterday we kicked off Workers’ comp pharmacy week with a quick review of WCRI’s latest research. Today we’ll focus on our annual Survey of Pharmacy Benefit Management in Workers’ Compensation. We’ve been doing this for (gulp!) 19 […]

I am sometimes asked during presentations, at conferences, or just in general conversations why I rarely cover Workers Comp fraud in the 2,000 articles on this website.  I have covered fraud in a few instances […]

There’s been a lot of news around work comp pharmacy of late – time to dive into what’s happening, why, and the implications thereof. No better place to start than WCRI’s just-published study on the latest […]

Workers’ compensation’s original premise, the “Grand Bargain”, has remained consistent since its inception in the early 20th century. There have been exceptions and variations to the definition of disease and injury coverage, types of benefits and […]

I received an interesting inquiry from an attorney interested in pursuing Board Certification Worker’s Compensation. The application period is September 1 through October 31, 2022 (Halloween). The question was in two parts, and despite my familiarity with […]

Most people have heard the phrase “torn cartilage” before. Usually you hear it when there are reports about athlete injuries. It’s actually a really common Illinois work injury too. Most people don’t know what it […]

The following is a list of the top 10 most frequently cited standards following inspections of worksites by federal OSHA for all industries. OSHA publishes the list to alert employers about these commonly cited standards […]