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New Jersey workers again are now at risk for West Nile Virus. The warnings of the mosquito-borne illness are an alert for New Jersey workers to take adequate precautions against this infectious disease.The New Jersey […]

Registering its highest attendance ever, WCI’s Annual Conference was back and bigger than ever, with sessions centered around the challenges presented in a post-pandemic world. Our Vice President of Client Engagement, Mark Walls, shares his […]

I recently ran across a post on social media discussing the differential diagnosis. This is of course very familiar to those who work in the realm of injury, diagnosis, and remediation. The term is often […]

Workers’ compensation began as a system for injured workers in the early 1900s. Since that time we have seen numerous changes within each state system evolving to where we are today; however, the basic construct […]

In my prior life as corporate safety director, a maintenance crew was sent to set up machinery overseas. A report came back, the crew arrived to perform the work and, upon learning no safety equipment […]

Pictures and a news story recently crossed my feed. ABC News reported multiple fatalities when two small planes somehow collided in rural California. I have spent a few hours in cockpits over the years, and have known […]

WCRI (Workers Compensation Research Institute) recently released the results of their newest study on how psychosocial factors have a direct correlation to the outcome of Workers Comp claims.  They interviewed stakeholders in the Workers Comp […]

The defense brief has now been submitted to California Supreme Court for review on the question of whether the workers’ compensation act does bars a claim against an employer by a household contact of an […]