Wedding Bells Ring for a Marriage Made in Workers' Comp

• 07/24/18

There has been a lot of activity in the mergers and acquisitions arena of the workers’ compensation industry lately. Numerous big companies have been swallowed up by bigger companies, forming new, even ...
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The Price of Getting Old: California Gets Under Our Skin (and Contents)

• 07/23/18

A week ago, I was in California, speaking at the annual conference of the California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation. A very big topic there was the proliferation of “Skin and Contents” ...
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You Don't Have to Hire the Psychologist, But You Must Understand the Psychology

• 07/19/18

There are a number of constants in the world of workplace injuries and workers’ compensation. One of them is the fact that employers hate the idea of paying for psychiatric care, and they will work to ...
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Kids' Chance and the Best Job in the World

• 07/18/18

By all accounts I have a pretty great job. I get to work with terrific people and have made many strong friendships around the country. I have the opportunity to be creative in this position, and, if I do ...
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The Risk Management Follies, or When Your Media Training Call Is a PR Disaster

• 07/16/18

I am fascinated by the world of risk management. There are so many challenges to the field; so many potential threats to be concerned with. And despite the best laid plans of mice and men, things can go ...
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Miracle Cures

• 07/11/18

I shouldn’t be writing about this. I should instead be making a beeline to a US Patent Office to secure these ideas and ensure for myself a vast amount of future riches. But, that sounds like a lot of ...
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Want to Control Your Retirement Pension Costs? Hire This Guy.

• 07/10/18

A man in Germany has been arrested for attempting to murder a co-worker by poisoning his lunch and is now suspected of 21 “suspicious deaths” of co-workers at the company. Police ...
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Coming to WCI? Help Kids' Chance Give Kids the World

• 07/06/18

Every year the Workers’ Compensation Institute, as part of their annual educational conference in Orlando, holds a service day supporting the non-profit organization Give Kids the World (GKTW). This ...
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The Best Laid Plans of Participatory Millennial Trials

• 07/02/18

As part of our Hot Seat Webinar on the rise of the Millennials last Friday, we intended to enhance the “visitor experience” with a little add on after the presentation. Playing on the stereotype ...
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