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I recently heard from Horace Middlemier, an old acquaintance in the world of legal practice [1]. He had attended an educational gathering and had a strange experience that he wanted to relate. The question he […]

The subject of gun safety is not new to these pages. See Safety First (November 2021) and Workplace Gun Safety (August 2022). Essentially, workplace safety is everyone's job. Period. There have been investigations into the workplace shooting of Halyna Hutchins, […]

A TPA change can sometimes provide a renewed claims handling experience that benefits an insured, but compliance requirements and stakeholder communication issues may force an insured contemplating a change outside of a renewal period to […]

A notable recurrent theme in workers' compensation recently is mental health. This dovetails into aspects of the broader focus that has been proposed and advocated in the claims business in recent years. There are those […]

In recent years, costs for catastrophic claims have been trending upward, in part due to rising healthcare costs and technological advancements. Still, many of these injuries are preventable. We dig into a few of the […]

In a nod to the evolving perceptions of healthy eating and exercise in the 1980s, a great James Bond exchange has him sharing with Moneypenny that his current secret assignment was "to eliminate all free […]

to comp laude. It’s unlike any other work comp conference – it is focused on what people and organizations are doing right, the right way – and the impact that has on the people we serve […]

Summary: Ensuring employees have basic knowledge of first aid and how to respond in an emergency is key to promoting a safe workplace. Learn more about OSHA’s first aid requirements, basic first aid procedures, and how […]