Insurance Rate Increases: Fact or Fiction?

• 09/13/12
• John D'Alusio

The insurance industry has been bemoaning inadequate rates for the last several years. However, with the nation's fragile economy, rate hardening was seen as impossible without a significant loss of ...
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Is there only one way to keep workers safe?

• 09/12/12
• Terry Bogyo

Last week I was in Brisbane, Queensland on Australia's east coast. Here's a jurisdiction a bit bigger in population than British Columbia, a little smaller than Washington State, with ...
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What keeps workers safe?

• 08/29/12
• Terry Bogyo

I've spent many days enjoying the view of False Creek and the Roundhouse Community Centre from an apartment near the top of a residential tower in Vancouver's Yaletown district.  The stunning ...
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Another WC Conference, More "Recycling"

• 08/28/12
• John D'Alusio

The old aphorism goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That saying is probably never more accurate than when attending a conference such as the annual FWCI gathering in ...
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The Elusive Qualities of Effective Leadership

• 08/09/12
• John D'Alusio

I have studied leadership for many years, in an attempt to intellectually understand what constitutes the essential qualities of an effective leader. Personal observation has also informed my quest to assay ...
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Part 2: Do the words we use to describe WC claims matter?

• 07/30/12
• Terry Bogyo

The basic terms we use in workers' compensation have meanings, associations and connotations whether we like them or not. I received a lot of questions and comments on my last post about terms such as ...
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Brokers and Agents Beware - WC is the Leader in E&O Claims

• 07/26/12
• John D'Alusio

WC is statutorily required in all states (except Texas, where an employer can opt out of the system and take their chances under common law when an employee is injured). So how can there be so many E&O ...
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Do the words we use to describe WC claims matter?

• 07/21/12
• Terry Bogyo

Workers' compensation is an extremely complex form of social insurance. Those who specialize in workers' compensation tend to adopt jargon as a kind of shorthand to express concepts to those in the ...
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Health is Wealth

• 07/21/12
• John D'Alusio

As I was preparing to write a blog for this website last week, I received unexpected and tragic personal news. My best friend had succumbed to complications from multiple myeloma (blood plasma cancer) after ...
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