Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Dollars & Sense More communication, more services and more medical intervention can make a workers’ compensation claim look exceptionally well managed. The important question is whether all that activity is helping the injured worker recover.  […]

Dollars & Sense Every organization in the workers’ compensation system has legitimate goals. The challenge emerges when individually reasonable decisions combine to create consequences nobody intended.  Consider a workers’ compensation claim in which everyone appears […]

Case File Although a doctor's 10% impairment rating of an injured Kentucky coal worker fell between Category II and Category III in the AMA Guides, the doctor's slight deviation of between 2% and 5% wasn't […]

WHAT:The share of lost-time claims involving workers aged 65 and older doubled, rising from 4% in Accident Year 2012 to 8% in 2025. Similarly, the share of claims involving female workers increased over the study […]

Dollars & Sense Predictive tools can identify expensive workers’ compensation claims. Whether the response improves recovery and reduces total costs demands a different kind of proof.  A workers’ compensation claim receives a high-risk score. The […]

Federal Focus A federal employee who suffered permanent anal impairment following a work-related sexual assault won a remand from ECAB after medical evidence raised unresolved questions about whether her condition could support a schedule award […]

Spooky Safe Halloween gives us a fascinating opportunity to watch attention change inside an ordinary workplace. A skeleton appears beside the copier. A coworker arrives dressed as a dinosaur. Someone announces the costume contest while […]

Case File When a Tennessee worker sought extraordinary benefits, his failure to produce the requisite documentation undid his claim. Case Burkes v. Sysco Knoxville, LLC, No. E2025-02007-SC-R3-WC (Tenn. 10/22/26) What Happened? A worker for a […]