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Recent Study Suggests Private Equity Ownership Associated with Higher Payer Costs
Recent Study Suggests Private Equity Ownership Associated with Higher Payer Costs

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to a recent PwC analysis, last year saw an overall 6 percent increase in healthcare costs, and analysts are projecting a 7 percent for next year. Drug pricing and staffing […]
Case Lesson: Mo. Exclusive Remedy Rules Prevent Health Care Providers from Suing Insurers, Employers for Unpaid Medical Bills
Case Lesson: Mo. Exclusive Remedy Rules Prevent Health Care Providers from Suing Insurers, Employers for Unpaid Medical Bills

When an insurer or an employer doesn't pay the bill for an injured employee's medical care, health care providers must pursue their remedies under the Workers' Compensation Act. Case: Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgery Center of Chesterfield, […]
Systems Thinking in Workers’ Compensation Claims Organizations: Expanding Capabilities for Success
Systems Thinking in Workers’ Compensation Claims Organizations: Expanding Capabilities for Success

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In the world of workers' compensation claims organizations, success often stems from the ability of individuals to think beyond the immediate and apply systems thinking to their work. Systems thinking pushes […]
Do You Know the Rule? Ill. Workers’ Right to PTSD Benefits
Do You Know the Rule? Ill. Workers’ Right to PTSD Benefits

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employers in Illinois may be responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits for an employee with PTSD, but only under certain conditions. First, as with all injuries eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, […]
Can You Believe It? Genital Tuberculosis Flare Up didn’t Connect to Work
Can You Believe It? Genital Tuberculosis Flare Up didn’t Connect to Work

Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How to handle preexisting conditions has raised factual and legal questions in workers' compensation from pretty much the beginning. As one case, Green's Case, 165 N.E. 120 (Mass. 1929), which involved […]
Aviation Consultants Say Airport Ramp Employees Remain Caught in Unsafe Work Jungle
Aviation Consultants Say Airport Ramp Employees Remain Caught in Unsafe Work Jungle

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The recent death of two ramp workers being sucked into jet engines comes as no surprise to Ross Aimer, a former airport ramp worker and 747 pilot. “These deaths illustrate the […]
Md. Top Court Holds that Questioning Claimant about Workers’ Comp Bore No Relevancy to Criminal Charges against Defendant
Md. Top Court Holds that Questioning Claimant about Workers’ Comp Bore No Relevancy to Criminal Charges against Defendant

Baltimore, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It's not often that workers' compensation and criminal law come up in the same case, but it's not unheard of, either. For example, in a recent case out of Maryland, Calloway […]
Harlem Worker Dead, Others Injured as Attacks Against Workers Continue
Harlem Worker Dead, Others Injured as Attacks Against Workers Continue

Harlem, NY (WorkersCompensaiton.com) – A 63-year-old grocery store worker was attacked and beaten to death outside of the Harlem store he worked at earlier this month, as attacks on workers across the country continue. Officials […]

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