Shooting in Baltimore Marks Third US Workplace Shooting in 24 Hours

• 09/21/18
• Liz Carey

Aberdeen, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) – A woman who entered a Rite Aid distribution center and killed three people before turning her gun on herself Thursday marked the third workplace shooting in America in 24 ...

Five Things You Need to Know: 9/21, Friday Edition

• 09/21/18
• Dara Barney

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - 1) NY: Prison Guard Busted for Allegedly Working Another Job After Injury Benjamin Essenter, a prison guard out of Albany, has been charged with “…grand larceny, insurance fraud ...

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 ...

Opportunity to be Heard

• 09/21/18
• David Langham

What is the scope and purpose of the Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims (OJCC)? In a nutshell, this agency delivers process to those impacted by workplace injuries, the employees and employers. In Florida, the process of adjudicating and mediating ...

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 ...

OIG Finds Flaws in OSHA’s Fatality and Severe Injury Reporting Program

• 09/21/18
• National Safety Council

Washington, DC — OSHA is not doing enough to ensure it has complete information on work-related deaths and severe injuries, and is not consistent in citing establishments that fail to file ...

NY State Corrections Officer Charged With Defrauding Workers' Comp By Working At A Bar While Claiming He Was Not Employed At All

• 09/21/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott today announced the arrest of a New York ...

Cal/OSHA Issues Citations for Fatal Waste Collection Truck Accident

• 09/21/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Fremont, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Cal/OSHA has issued citations to GreenWaste Recovery Inc. after a waste collection worker was fatally run over by his own truck in San Jose. An investigation ...

Unlike NFL Players - 53 Pro Wrestlers Lose CTE Case

• 09/21/18
• WorkCompAcademy.com

Sacramento, CA - The National Football League, which entered a concussion-related settlement that has been valued at approximately $1 billion, is far from the only organization affected by the emergence of civil and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Opioid Crisis: What is the Government Doing About It? Part 2 - Improvements with Data Reporting, Collection and Analysis

• 09/21/18
• MEDVAL

This blog series is devoted to better understanding the efforts our Federal government is undertaking to combat the opioid epidemic in America. Earlier this year, the ...

Changes in Monday Claims

• 09/21/18
• NCCI

A Case of the Mondays Sometimes injuries that are not work-related get claimed as workers compensation. Workers may get injured away from their job, but say the injury is related to work to reap better benefits, particularly if they are otherwise uninsured. Many ...

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 ...

NY State Corrections Officer Charged With Defrauding Workers' Comp By Working At A Bar While Claiming He Was Not Employed At All

• 09/21/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott today announced the arrest of a New York ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NC Sawmill Pays Back Wages and Penalty After U.S. DOL Investigation Finds Child Labor and Wage Violations

• 09/18/18
• WorkersCompensation.com

Rutherfordton, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has assessed D&M Logging Inc. a civil penalty ...

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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Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson is the CEO of WorkersCompensation.com, and author of the award winning blog, "From Bob's Cluttered Desk". Bob is an accomplished presenter for the workers' comp industry, and we are lucky to have him. We don't ...

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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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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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Chriss Swaney

Chriss Swaney is a freelance reporter who has written for Antique Trader Magazine, Reuters, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, the Burlington Free Press, UPI, The Tribune-Review and the Daily Record.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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