NY Subcontractor Sued for $50M After Two Trench Cave-Ins in Six Months

• 09/20/18
• Liz Carey

Long Island, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A son of an employee killed in a cave-in is suing his father’s employer for $50 million citing safety concerns.  The defendant, Don Antorino, of Antorino ...

Five Things You Need to Know: 9/20, Thursday Edition

• 09/20/18
• Dara Barney

1) Shooting at WI Software Company Leads to Four Injuries Wisconsin-based WTS Paradigm was the site of a shooting yesterday, after a gunman wounded three people, writes James B. Nelson and John Bacon of the Milwaukee Journal for USA ...

The Hidden Costs of the Gig Economy

• 09/19/18
• Liz Carey

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – While hiring gig workers may save employers money on benefits, consumers and others may pay the price of those savings. According to a new survey from Korn Ferry, 60 percent of HR professionals say they ...

Five Things You Need to Know: 9/19, Wednesday Edition

• 09/19/18
• Dara Barney

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - 1) CT: Former Police Dept. Employee Fights for Work Comp Coverage After Shooting Phillip Roselle, a part of the Norwalk Police Dept. for 30 years, still remembers being shot on the job, ...

Ginmills in Brooklyn and Queens Hit With Hefty Fines and Stop Work Orders

• 09/18/18
• Toni Sutton

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - Earlier this summer a slew of bars in Queens and Brooklyn were issued stop work orders and were administered approximately $471,000 in penalties. According to authorities, ...

Rousmaniere: How Fare Workers Benefit?

• 09/19/18
• Peter Rousmaniere

Private sector employers and their employees are continually challenged to manage health benefits and other non-occupational benefits. These benefits are unevenly distributed within the American workforce. Some have very low participation ...

Comp Laude 2018 is Around the Corner

• 09/18/18
• David Langham

On October 10, 2018, the annual CompLaude program will include the People's Choice presentations. That is only 22 days away, which is a bit disconcerting (more on that in a moment). These are approximately 6 minute Ted talks presented by those ...

The Rash to Repeal our Rights

• 09/17/18
• David Langham

The news recently reminded me about rights in this country. I was reading the BBC News on September 3, 2018 and came across "Malaysia Women Caned for Attempting to have Lesbian Sex." The article notes that "homosexual activity is illegal under ...

How to Fix American Healthcare

• 09/14/18
• David Langham

In July, Fox News reported that some Americans are not renewing their health insurance. Purportedly, about one million have made that election, after learning that the taxpayers would not contribute to their insurance premiums. The article ...

Opioids Can Interfere and Complicate

• 09/12/18
• David Langham

In May, WorkCompCentral reported Court Reinstates Denial of PTD Award for Worker With Opioid Addiction. In Borkovec v. Dish Network, Case No. 17-0743 (Iowa Ct. App., May 2016), the issue of opioid dependence is aptly illustrated. The ...

MEMIC’s Stowell Receives Rising Tide Award for Patient Safety

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) - For more than 30 years MEMIC’s Beth Stowell, a senior loss control consultant to the health care industry, has worked to improve safety for patients and their ...

Drop That Donut: Workers Consuming 1,000 Extra Calories at Work, Researchers Say

• 09/20/18
• National Safety Council

Boston, MA — Bagels and donuts during the breakfast meeting. Cake for birthday celebrations. Deli sandwiches during a lunch seminar. Consuming extra food is a common occurrence for ...

WA L&I Proposes Significant Drop in Workers' Comp Rates for 2019

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Tumwater, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) - The price of workers' compensation insurance in Washington will likely drop significantly in 2019. Today the state Department of Labor & Industries ...

WA AG’s Hanford Worker Safety Lawsuit Leads to Big Win for Workers

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Olympia, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will conduct testing and, if successful, begin implementing a new system to ...

NIOSH Issues Research Agendas for Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector, Traumatic Injury Prevention

• 09/18/18
• National Safety Council

Washington, DC — NIOSH has published its National Occupational Research Agenda for Wholesale and Retail Trade, as well as its NORA for Traumatic Injury Prevention ...

At Least He Briefly Caught the T-Shirt

• 09/20/18
• Robert Wilson

We sometimes have the opportunity to review workplace injuries that are more, shall we say, unusual given their unique situation. And when a football team’s mascot is hauled off the field in a medical cart after a workplace incident it ...

Technology, Amazon and the Privacy Challenge in Workers' Comp

• 09/19/18
• Robert Wilson

There was a time where our lives were our own. We could go about our day without concerns regarding privacy or monitoring. Your thoughts, comments, purchases and more were your domain; or at least the province of ...

A Follow Up on The Medical Billing Shell Game

• 09/17/18
• Robert Wilson

When “The Medical Billing Shell Game” was published Friday, a follow up post was not expected to be written, but here we are. Another bill arrived this weekend that further highlights how irrelevant retail medical billing can ...

The Medical Billing Shell Game

• 09/14/18
• Robert Wilson

Recent experiences helping an elderly relative navigate the morass of medical bills accumulated after several medical incidents has convinced me of one thing. Medical billing is largely a shell game, and the losers in that game are the ones most likely ...

Hot Seat - What's the Big Deal Regarding the AMA 6th Edition?

• 09/13/18
• Robert Wilson

The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition, has been a pretty hot topic lately. Challenged in multiple states and found unconstitutional in two, it has drawn the ire of plaintiff attorneys ...

Back to the Drawing Board

• 09/20/18
• Julius Young

The California Division of Workers’ Comp is going back to the drawing board on possible changes to the medical-legal fee schedule. A public meeting to discuss a possible new schedule has been announced for October 17 in Oakland. A large turnout is ...

Paradigm Outcomes Acquired

• 09/20/18
• Joe Paduda

Paradigm will be acquired by investment firm Omers, a Toronto, Canada headquartered company. Sources indicate the price was approximately 14 times earnings; by my calculation, the total valuation was above a billion dollars. Till now, Omers had not ...

Texas Mutual: Weekly Regulatory Roundup (as of Sept. 14)

• 09/19/18
• Work Safe, Texas Blog

Regulatory Roundup is a weekly compilation of employee wellness and safety news. You can read the full article by clicking the titles below. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Tips for emergency ...

IAASW Seminar Preview: Maureen Longanacre of NCCI

• 09/18/18
• Nina Luckman

The Insurance Auditor’s Association of the Southwest (IAASW) will hold its first Louisiana Regional Seminar October 4th and 5th at L’Auberge in Baton Rouge. Ahead of the seminar, Louisiana Comp ...

Innovation in Treatment of Chronic Lung Injuries: Dr. Ashish Bhatia’s Outlook

• 09/18/18
• Paradigm Outcomes

 In medical research, failures are never a total loss, because knowing why treatments fail helps to develop more successful devices or drugs, Dr. Ashish Bhatia told Paradigm Outcomes’ eighth ...

WA AG’s Hanford Worker Safety Lawsuit Leads to Big Win for Workers

• 09/20/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Olympia, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will conduct testing and, if successful, begin implementing a new system to ...

NY Subcontractor Sued for $50M After Two Trench Cave-Ins in Six Months

• 09/20/18
• Liz Carey

Long Island, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A son of an employee killed in a cave-in is suing his father’s employer for $50 million citing safety concerns.  The defendant, Don Antorino, of ...

At Least He Briefly Caught the T-Shirt

• 09/20/18
• Robert Wilson

We sometimes have the opportunity to review workplace injuries that are more, shall we say, unusual given their unique situation. And when a football team’s mascot is hauled off the field in a medical cart after a workplace ...

Five Things You Need to Know: 9/20, Thursday Edition

• 09/20/18
• Dara Barney

1) Shooting at WI Software Company Leads to Four Injuries Wisconsin-based WTS Paradigm was the site of a shooting yesterday, after a gunman wounded three people, writes James B. Nelson and John Bacon of the Milwaukee Journal ...

Drop That Donut: Workers Consuming 1,000 Extra Calories at Work, Researchers Say

• 09/20/18
• National Safety Council

Boston, MA — Bagels and donuts during the breakfast meeting. Cake for birthday celebrations. Deli sandwiches during a lunch seminar. Consuming extra food is a common occurrence for ...

Terry Bogyo

Terry is an active researcher, speaker and commentator on workers compensation issues. Now retired, he was the Director of Corporate Planning and Development for WorkSafeBC. His responsibilities included environmental scanning, strategic planning ...

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Judge David Langham

David Langham is the Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims for the Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims at the Division of Administrative Hearings. He has been involved in workers’ compensation for over 25 years as an attorney, an ...

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F.J. Thomas

F.J. Thomas has worked in healthcare business for more than fifteen years in Tennessee. Her experience as a contract appeals analyst has given her an intimate grasp of the inner workings of both the provider and insurance world. Knowing first hand ...

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Bob Wilson

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Peter Rousmaniere

Peter Rousmaniere is widely known throughout the workers’ compensation industry, both for his writing and consulting experience. Based in the picture perfect New England town of Woodstock, VT, he is a regular on the conference circuit, and is deeply ...

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Chriss Swaney

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Bruce Burk

Bruce Burk is an experienced workers' compensation defense attorney located in South Florida. He has also worked in civil litigation and criminal defense, handling more than 40 trials, both jury and non-jury. Burk received his law degree from ...

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Dara Barney

Dara Barney comes to WorkersCompensation.com as the Senior Editor of Premium Media. Her previous journalism experience in Idaho and California, along with her former role as Public Information Specialist at the Idaho Industrial Commission, all play ...

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Heather Schwartz Sanderson

Heather Schwartz Sanderson, Esq., MSCC, CHPE, CLMP, CMSP Heather is Chief Legal Officer for Franco Signor LLC, the nation's compliance authority for Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) matters. She has lectured on MSP compliance to the workers’ ...

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Liz Carey

Liz Carey has worked as a writer, reporter and editor for nearly 25 years. First, as an investigative reporter for Gannett and later as the Vice President of a local Chamber of Commerce, Carey has covered everything from local government to the ...

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Jon Coppelman

Since 1990 Jon Coppelman has trained thousands of business owners from Main Street to Fortune 500 on the fundamentals of workers’ compensation cost control. From 2006 to 2012 he was a principal writer for the Workers’ Comp Insider, LynchRyan’s ...

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Phil Yacuboski

Phil Yacuboski is a freelance writer based in Maryland. He writes about business, healthcare and technology. In his spare time, Phil enjoys the outdoors and photography.

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Toni Sutton

Toni Sutton is a freelance writer from Brooklyn, NY now based in San Diego, CA. She’s been writing for more than 10 years covering topics from business, technology, health, and everything in between. When she’s not hunting for a great story or that ...

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