Gun Violence Pushes Businesses To Purchase Active Shooter Insurance

• 08/23/19
• Liz Carey

Washington, DC – (WorkersCompensation.com) - Mass shootings in the U.S. have propelled businesses to purchase active shooter insurance to supplement their other insurance coverages, experts say.  A product ...

Two Los Angeles Pharmacy Owners Found Guilty In $35 Million Case

• 08/23/19
• F.J. Thomas

Los Angeles, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A scheme to defraud Medicare has resulted in guilty findings against two California businessmen. Aleksandr Suris, 51, and Maxim Sverdlov, 44 were found guilty this week of ...

CA: SCIF Declares Dividend

• 08/23/19
• Nancy Grover

Pleasanton, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Up to 75,000 California employers will get a bonus averaging $1,400 each next year. The State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors yesterday announced a $105 million dividend for qualifying ...

Youth Academy Worker Wins Appeal in WC Claim For Student Attack

• 08/22/19
• Liz Carey

Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in favor a worker who claims he was psychologically impaired following an assault by a student at the academy where he works. The ...

Speakers Explain the Changing Nature of Leave Laws

• 08/22/19
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – All ‘paid leave’ is not created equally. There’s accrued leave, employer mandated paid leave, and paid family and medical leave. There’s also a trend of voluntary ...

WCMSA Legislation Introduced Again in U.S. House of Representatives

• 08/22/19
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

We have blogged on numerous occasions regarding Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) legislation that continues to be re-introduced in Congress with slight variations over the last ...

Rousmaniere: Insuring Hazardous Jobs

• 08/21/19
• Peter Rousmaniere, Gyana Singh

What a difference a generation makes in dangers at work. Since the mid 1990s, the incidence of lost time injuries was cut in half. Yet dangerous jobs remain. What are they?  If you look at fatality rates, the same ones ...

CMS Updates Unified Agenda Regarding Date for Civil Monetary Penalty Provisions for MSP Reporting Requirements

• 08/13/19
• Jean S. Goldstein

Last week, we provided an update that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Unified Agenda as related to the proposed rulemaking for guidance ...

Rousmaniere: Worn Out Workers

• 08/07/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

Mark Walls and Kimberly George are on to a good idea. They say we should be aware of how personal predicaments influence recovery from work injury.  In May they said that “social determinants of health [of the injured worker] have a ...

First Circuit, Mass. Court: Assignee of Medicare Advantage Plan May Bring Private Cause of Action for Double Damages

• 08/01/19
• Jean S. Goldstein

In July, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a ruling on a Motion to Dismiss and Motion to Strike Class Allegations involving ...

CA State Fund Declares $105 Million Dividend

• 08/22/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Pleasanton, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors today announced plans to distribute an approximate $105 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies ...

OK: New Administrative Law Judge Joins the Workers’ Comp Commission

• 08/22/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Oklahoma City, OK (WorkersCompensation.com) - Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC)- The WCC has announced the appointment of John Blodgett to the position of Administrative Law Judge ...

CA: Oxnard Resident Sentenced in Workers' Compensation Insurance Fraud Case

• 08/22/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Ventura, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - - District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Ernestina Rodriguez (DOB 2/27/1963), of Oxnard, was placed on formal probation for a ...

More than Twice as Many Employers than 10 Years Ago are Planning to Increase Investments in Employee Health and Wellness, Optum Study Shows

• 08/21/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Eden Prairie, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) - More than 80% of employers said they are planning to increase their health and ...

NCCI Reviews Medical Marijuana and Workers' Compensation

• 08/21/19
• WorkCompAcademy.com

Sacramento, CA - NCCI’s Court Case Update provides a look at some of the cases and decisions monitored by NCCI’s Legal Division that may impact workers compensation across the states. ...

On the Hot Seat in September, Adversarial Workers' Compensation Systems

• 08/23/19
• BWilson

We just opened registration for the 10th episode of our webinar series, The Hot Seat. This one, as previous Hot Seat webinars this year, will focus on a topic identified as an “Imperative Issue” ...

What Irritates You in the Office?

• 08/21/19
• Robert Wilson

We just came across a survey that was conducted of 1,000 people last year that disclosed what the top ten irritants tend to be for people in the workplace. It turns out that the primary irritant for people on the job is other people on the job. ...

In Misguided Subrogation Conversation, Outcomes Are What Matters

• 08/19/19
• Robert Wilson

An item crossed the Cluttered Desk last week that provided a terrific example of the oft misguided focus that we see in the workers’ compensation industry. It is a distraction that can waste our time, cost us ...

Epic Axe Throwing and Other Dubious Conference Activities

• 08/15/19
• Robert Wilson

I’m just back from the 74th Annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference produced by the Workers’ Compensation Institute. Held every year in Orlando, FL, it is without a doubt the biggest ...

At WCI? Don’t Forget the Kids' Chance Volunteer Reception

• 08/11/19
• Robert Wilson

It is that time of year again, where the great throng of workers’ compensation professionals converge on Orlando for days of meetings, sessions, and just a bit more than their fair share of fun. This is the ...

Q&A: WCRI Founder Dr. Richard Victor to Release Book on the Future of Workers' Compensation through Sedgwick Institute

• 08/23/19
• Louisiana Comp Blog

Dr. Richard Victor, PhD, senior fellow at the Sedgwick Institute is set to release a book about what the future of the workers’ ...

Great Appointment

• 08/23/19
• Julius Young

Governor Newsom recently made a great appointment for a job important to California workers. On August 15 the Governor announced the appointment of Douglas Parker to head Cal OSHA (as the chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at the California Labor ...

Workers Comp Policy Questions - Readers Top 10 Questions

• 08/23/19
• James Moore

Worker’s Comp Policy Questions Received From Readers and Google Searchers  The number of Worker’s Comp policy questions we receive by email, contact form, and phone increase exponentially July through ...

Demonstrate Respect

• 08/23/19
• Judge David Langham

I recently ran across an order regarding a procedural motion, to compel answers to some certified question(s). The underlying issue was neither complex nor worthy of further discussion. But, in the course of that motion hearing, the assigned judge was called ...

What's The Difference?

• 08/22/19
• Judge Brian Addington

I recently took my son and members of his cross-country team on a running and history trip. The boys ran two 5K races, one in Virginia and the other in Pennsylvania. They had a good time running, and we enjoyed some relaxing days at the pool. We ...

CA State Fund Declares $105 Million Dividend

• 08/22/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Pleasanton, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors today announced plans to distribute an approximate $105 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies ...

CA: Oxnard Resident Sentenced in Workers' Compensation Insurance Fraud Case

• 08/22/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Ventura, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - - District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Ernestina Rodriguez (DOB 2/27/1963), of Oxnard, was placed on formal probation for a ...

Gun Violence Pushes Businesses To Purchase Active Shooter Insurance

• 08/23/19
• Liz Carey

Washington, DC – (WorkersCompensation.com) - Mass shootings in the U.S. have propelled businesses to purchase active shooter insurance to supplement their other insurance coverages, experts say.  A ...

US DOL Launches Redesigned OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program Website

• 08/19/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today the recent launch of a redesigned website for ...

On the Hot Seat in September, Adversarial Workers' Compensation Systems

• 08/23/19
• BWilson

We just opened registration for the 10th episode of our webinar series, The Hot Seat. This one, as previous Hot Seat webinars this year, will focus on a topic identified as an “Imperative ...